People lined the streets to give a hero’s welcome to U.S. Army Private First Class Joseph Raymond Travers, a POW/MIA from the ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Alvin R. Scarborough and Army Pfc. Joseph R. Travers — are coming for burials with full ...

The remains of a Massachusetts soldier who went missing during the Korean War in 1951 and died as a prisoner of war have been identified and will soon return home. In early 1951, U.S. Army Pfc.

“His battalion was overrun in Korea, and he went on a death march with the Chinese,” said Rodriguez. “He went miles and miles and somehow survived that march and went to POW camp 1.

The City of Taunton welcomed the remains of a Taunton-born Korean War prisoner of war on Wednesday. Community members and ...

A fellow American POW who returned home alive reported that Judd died on on Feb. 14, 1951, at Hofong Prisoner of War camp, also known ... RELATED: N. Korea says talks with US could resume in ...

About 130 POW camps were built in Japan during the war, and POWs were forced to toil in coal mines, factories and elsewhere. Many died of disease, starvation and violence.

(WPRI) — The remains of a Korean War soldier who died more than ... then died later that year as a prisoner of war (POW). The 24-year-old Taunton native was a member of Dog Company, 1st ...

Lee Hak-rae, an ethnic Korean who long ... a guard at a prisoner of war camp in Thailand. After the war ended, Allied forces prosecuted Lee on charges of abusing POWs. A court in Singapore held ...

TAUNTON, Mass. (WLNE) — The remains of a Taunton-born Korean War prisoner of war will be returned home Wednesday. 24-year-old ...