In Germany in WWII, POWs died at a rate 1.2%. In the Pacific theater the rate was 37%. In the Philippines, POWs died at a rate of 40%. In total 11,107 American soldiers captured in the Philippines ...

By the end of the war, a shocking 37% of all POWs in the Pacific theater would be dead. Today, the Bataan peninsula is the site of oil refineries, a shipyard, and many monuments to the suffering ...

A new documentary film investigates what triggered the doomed attempted escape of more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war from a POW camp in Cowra, Australia, during the Pacific War. Almost all ...