Polvado was killed in action on Dec. 12, 1944, in Pachten, Germany.
German prisoners at Camp Carson in Colorado sing as they march to the camp laundry in 1943 German prisoners at Camp Carson in Colorado sing as they march to the camp laundry in 1943Bettmann ...
A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s armed forces (the Wehrmacht) during World War II occurred 80 years ago, in March 1944: the deliberate mass murder of thousands of women, old people ...