Lloyd A. Johnson remembers returning to his Roxbury, Mass., home and finding his normally stoic father crying uncontrollably that September afternoon in 1942. Only after asking his mother did Johnson, ...

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (Nov. 18, 2011) -- For the first time, the installation held a joint wreath-laying ceremony Sunday to remember the World War II German and Italian prisoners buried at the ...

German U-boat commander Werner Henke was shot and killed in a suicidal attempt to escape from his American enemies during World War II. He was among thousands of Axis prisoners captured while fighting ...

Just a footnote to the April 22 Style article about the death of German U-boat captain Werner Henke at Fort Hunt in Alexandria. I was born (in 1941) and raised just outside Fort Hunt. My memories of ...