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POW Stories and Personal Accounts
This page includes a collection of resources focused on World War II POW stories and accounts.
POWs:
A biography of my survival of the Bataan Death March and three years as a Japanese Prisoner of War.
AFHI Virtual Museum - The Story of Stalag Luft III
Air Force Humanities Institute web site dedicated to the POW experience at Stalag Luft III which held British and American air force POWs.
Welcome to this Blog, dedicated to the memory of Alan Birley Bateman, British Bomber pilot who flew Stirling Bombers during World War 2. This Blog intends to tell the story of Alan Bateman, who was shot down over Southern Denmark in 1942, and held as prisoner of war in Stalagluft 3, near Sagan for over 3 years. This blog recounts, first hand, his experiences of life in the camp, including his part in the now famous “Great Escape”.
This page will take you on a remarkable journey across Germany during World War 11. This is a narrative of that journey. My father was an R.A.F. flying officer in December of 1942. These events happened after he was shot down and imprisoned and then forced to take the Lamsdorf march, or as it was better known, the death march .
Art Starratt's World War II Experiences
A B-17 bombardier and POW at Stalag Luft 1.
German POW camp in Bridgend, Wales, Great Britain called Camp 198. March 1945 largest number of German POWs ever to escape from a UK camp escaped. Renamed Special Camp 11 used to hold German Officers pending Nuremberg War Trials e.g. Von Rundstedt.
Captain George Duffy's POW Page
Captain George Duffy, Prisoner of War of German and Japanese writes about POW and American Merchant Marine in World War II
Center for Research Allied POWS Under the Japanese
Complete descriptions of Japanese POW Camps with rosters of prisoners, death rosters and unit rosters. POW Photographs, camp rosters, interviews, POW affidavits and diaries.
Deliverance It has Come; WWII POW Diary 1942-1945; Los Banos
Herman K. Beaber a missionary wrote a WWII POW Diary. This is a story of his fight to stay alive in a Japanese internment camp.
Far Eastern Heroes is a collection of stories written about the men and women who fought and were captured in the Far East. Their battle for survival lasted nearly four years in Japanese pow camps. They were all heroes, Far Eastern Heroes.
Research and share information with the Fepow Community. Loved ones imprisoned or killed in the Far East conflict with Japan, look no further then the Fepow Community for help.
An Insight into Life and Death at a POW Camp in War-time Japan. Read about the POW camp that was in Fukuoka, Japan, during World War II, with those who were there, both Allied and Japanese.
Details the famous mass escape from Stalag Luft III on March 24-25, 1944.
Ian Henry Duncan's WW2 prisoner of war diary.
In Hell There Is A Place Called Death's Railway
Dedicated to the former Japanese POW Stanley Willner
Island Farm POW Camp: 198 / Special Camp: XI
This web site is dedicated to the history and research of the Island Farm POW camp and the German POWs interned during the years 1944 -1948. On the night of 10th-11th March 1945, Seventy German prisoners tunneled to freedom from Camp 198 in Bridgend. It was the biggest escape attempt made by German POWs in Great Britain during the Second World War.
A collection of stories, photos, art and information on Stalag Luft I.
Dedicated to the honor and memory of the men who sailed as prisoners of the Japanese aboard the merchant vessel Oryoku Maru on December 13, 1944.
Our Mission Statement: To record as much information as possible about the conditions aboard the hell ships. Objective 1: Provide a search containing the names listed in the back of The Oryoku Maru Story. Objective 2: Provide access to the results of the war crimes trials dealing with the hell ships.
POW camp Stalag VII A - Moosburg Online
Since 1998, the Moosburg Online collects information on the POW and internment camps and on the later history of the area.
This is the transcription of a notebook, handwritten in pencil by my late father, Bill Clark, whilst in Stalag 383, a prisoner of war camp in Hohenfels, Bavaria.
Life as a Prisoner of War as reflected by former POW's of WWII.
This site is a tribute to those men who were imprisoned in Stalag 18A, Wolfsberg, Austria from 1941 to 1945, and in particular those who, like my father, were members of Working Party 99/L.
Prisoner of War Francis Xavier Larkin Snr AIF
These pages document the war time experiences of my father, Francis Xavier Larkin Snr. He was captured by the Japanese during the battle of the Muar in January, 1942. Following that he was interned in prisons and camps in Malaya, Singapore, Thailand and Japan. My dad managed to survive the war.
The Second World War Diary of Ian Henry Duncan
These pages are dedicated to the memory of my father who kept a war log/ diary detailing his experiences as a POW of both the Italians and the Germans during World War 2.
This website is dedicated to the thousands who were incarcerated in this infamous Nazi POW camp, to those who survived its horrors and to those who perished. It is our intent to provide as broad a picture as possible of Stalag 3A, and to invite those who were fortunate to survive as well as those who were in any way acquainted with it to contribute their stories, eyewitness accounts and documentation for the sake of posterity.
A collection of stories, photos, art and information on Stalag Luft I.
Personal account written by Edgar L. Moore.
A comprehensive resource for information about Stalag Lufts 4 and 6. There are maps, documents, narratives, camp rosters, audio and video files, a reading room. We are dedicated to preserving the history of the Allied Airmen held captive in these POW camps.
This website is dedicated to telling the story of the 1945 ill-fated attempt by the U.S. 4th Armored Division's "Task Force Baum" to liberate allied prisoners from the German POW camp at Hammelburg. Through officially denied, many historians believe that U.S. General George S. Patton Jr. gave the order to attempt this rescue over 50 miles behind enemy lines in order to liberate his son-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters, who was a prisoner at the camp.
Wake Island Prisoners of World War II - HistoryNet
The heroic survivors of Wake Island's defense force faced nearly four years as prisoners of the Japanese.
World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I
A collection of stories, photos, art and information on Stalag Luft I.