Between 1942 and 1946, the U.S. government constructed around 700 POW camps on U.S. soil, housing around 400,000 captured enemy soldiers. But what were the conditions like there?

We're all familiar with the haunting images of the concentration camps of World War II. But the history of those concentration camps extends back to the late 19th. century and the invention of barbed wire and repeating rifle [see...

Life on a Prison Ship during the War of 1812.

This is the untold story of the US servicemen and women held as prisoners of war.

VS Japanese Prisoner of War, POW, at opening of cave appealing to Japanese troops to surrender / VS US Marines throwing in smoke grenades, firing rifles / Various Japanese soldiers being pulled out of rubble, fortifications, surrendering...

MS Norwegian soldiers, holding gun on German Nazi official on street HA MS Blindfolded Nazi officer lead onboard ship MS Blindfolded Nazi soldiers.

MOT 1944: German prisoners and bodies of dead soldiers.

United States Marines advancing on rocky terrain toward final Japanese fortifications in the North, firing shoulder rocket launcher, explosion, others firing rifles into caves / United States Marines surrounding cave of Japanese...

At a time when Apache men and women followed specific gender roles, Lozen defied convention – to become one of the finest warriors in the tribe's history.

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at Andersonville were so horrific that 13,000 soldiers perished, many from overcrowding, starvation, and exposure....