Zachary Harader was seen in a picture shared last year on social media showing him entangled in wire atop a fence.

In past wars, captured American pilots were subjected to extreme hardship and used for propaganda purposes. Today, the US Air Force is preparing its fighter pilots for similar conditions.

Standing inside Colditz Castle, we trace the escape attempts that turned a “high security” prison into a battlefield of patience and nerve. From disguises that almost worked to tunnels that took ...

Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity ...

There are incidents of Commonwealth airmen being captured after taking off from Malta, such as the case of a Vickers Wellington bomber from No. 458 Squadron RAA (Royal Australian Air Force) the crew ...

The plaintiffs bar has argued that courts can only preempt prescription pharmaceutical state law failure-to-warn claims when the FDA formally rejects a proposed label change. Faced with that exact ...

This virtually forgotten British WW2 POW thriller is set in Italy in 1943. An officer's camp of around four-hundred men is under the command of a sadistic Italian general, who delights in discovering ...

Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. As all good Bay Area history nerds know, Alcatraz Prison ...

A Shasta County Jail inmate who had been taken to a hospital emergency room to get medical care ended up attacking the two correctional deputies who were guarding him and tried to escape, the Shasta ...

At 28, Martin McNally parachuted from a 727 with $500,000. Now out of prison, he recalls his ‘insane’ crime at a time when the country was plagued by hijackings Art Phillips; Pegalo Pictures Sunrise ...