Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German PoWs at Burnden Park, May 1945 (Image: Bolton Evening News) One of the more remarkable photos from the archive, this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean Shey was 12 when she first questioned her father’s judgment. He wanted to serve lunch to the Germans. Not neighbors ‒ ...

OAKFIELD — Laurie Nanni, president of the Oakfield Historical Society, was all smiles as she showed the detailed pencil-sketch of a woman's face, drawn in 1945. On the back of the sketch is written, ...

During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943. As ...

Jean Shey was 12 when she first questioned her father’s judgment. He wanted to serve lunch to the Germans. Not neighbors — prisoners of war in her town of Algona. Five of them. Men captured overseas ...