The interior of the restored chapel built by Italian prisoners of war at Camp Atterbury during World War II. The camp housed Italian and later German POWs during the war, a legacy that Atterbury ...
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Nov. 6, 2023) -- Every year, in recognition of Italy’s Armed Forces Day and National Day of Unity, a wreath is placed at the headstone of Pvt. Rino Carlutti at Fort Drum’s Prisoner of ...
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017. When Italian soldiers wanted to be caught by American forces during World War II, they would play cards. The loser of the card game had to crawl ...
Filmmaker Stephen Mancini set out to tell a simple story about a small chapel on an Army base in rural Franklin County and the Italian POWs who built it during World War II. Instead, he traveled the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On Veterans Day, November 11, Franklin County Visitors Bureau will host two ...
During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even the United States to be detained and await their trial. In March 1945, one ...
Sunday afternoon was peaceful and warm for the German/Italian POW Ceremony held at McClellan’s cemetery, dedicated to some of the prisoners who died at the former Army fort during World War II.