He then took a position as a journalist at the Washington Post, where he worked for three years before joining the Army in 1941 during World War II.
[3][4] Near the end of the war, Diggs and other POWs were marched West into Germany away from approaching Soviet forces.
Among his notable articles and his longest was a 13-page interview with politician John McCain, who was a POW in Vietnam for five and a half years.
[2] After retirement, he continued to occasionally contribute articles to the Maturity News Service, which is syndicated widely.
The Welcome Swede described Henry Söderberg (d. 1998), a Swedish attorney[6] representing the YMCA, who visited the camps in that area (including Stalag Luft III, the camp of The Great Escape), delivering goods welcomed by the Allied POWs.