Stars and Stripes

Sailors honor American POWs, Japanese laborers who died building wartime dam

U.S. sailors and Japanese service members remembered American prisoners of war and Japanese laborers who died building the ...

Citizens complete encyclopedia on life at wartime POW camps

For the first time, the numbers of prisoners of war incarcerated at camps across Japan during World War II and their ...
The Mercury

Local serviceman met death in World War II POW Japanese hell ship

To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the American ...
NEWS10 ABC on MSN

After more than 80 years, WWII POW is interred at home

The interment ceremony for a World War II POW from Troy is taking place at 2 p.m. at the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga ...
NBC Bay Area

San Francisco exhibit highlights service of Japanese American soldiers in WWII

In the days and months following the attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into World War II, thousands of people of Japanese descent in the U.S. were forced from their homes and into incarceration ...

How the epic saga of Japanese Americans in WWII was shot in the Bay Area for $30,000

Bay Area filmmaker Kerwin Berk's World War II drama "Kintsukuroi" brings the story of Japanese American incarceration to ...
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WWII POWs remembered in Yokohama on 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...