Andrea Franzoni is on a journey that’s taking him through the western United States by bike and backward in time. The 32-year-old Italian had never set foot on American soil until a few days ago. But ...

Nov. 11—The Annual Memorial Service at the German Italian POW Cemetery at Fort McClellan will be held on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 1:30 p.m. Special guests are family members of one of the German veterans ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Nov. 5, 2020) -- It is the smallest among the 40 U.S Army cemeteries, but its significance looms large in the history of Fort Drum and the North Country. Members of the Fort Drum ...

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 ...

More than 1,200 repatriated Italian prisoners of war lived and worked at what was then known as Letterkenny Ordinance Depot after Italy surrendered during World War II in September 1943. While there, ...

Like so many things in New Orleans, the story behind local writer Elisa Speranza’s debut novel, "The Italian Prisoner," (Burgundy Bend Press) begins with a party and food. While attending an event in ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Nov. 4, 2022) -- Fort Drum community members gathered at the Prisoner of War (POW) Cemetery on Nov. 4 to place a wreath at the grave of an Italian soldier, in honor of Italy’s Armed ...