| NOUN | a prisoner of war | prisoners of war | |
| SYNO | POW | prisoner of war |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- , and was taken prisoner of war by British forces.
- In 1942 near Malta, two New Zealanders, a South African and an Englishman achieved the first confirmed in-air hijack when they overpowered their captors aboard an Italian seaplane that was flying them to a prisoner-of-war camp.
- However, if they are caught behind enemy lines in disguises, they are not entitled to prisoner-of-war status and subject to prosecution and punishment—including execution.
- Ballarat has an extensive array of significant war memorials, the most recent of which is the Australian Ex Prisoner of War Memorial.
- Ringer Edwards, an Australian prisoner of war, was crucified for killing cattle, along with two others.
- The Bolshevik provisional authority which took over responsibility for Freisler's prisoner of war camp made use of him as a "Commissar" (as he was described by them in his repatriated prisoner of war paperwork in 1918) administratively organizing the camp's food supplies from 1917 to 1918.
- An infantry officer from the 4th/10th Baluch Regiment (4th Battalion of 10th Baluch Regiment, later amalgamated with the modern and current form of Baloch Regiment, 'Baloch' was spelled as 'Baluch' in Yahya's time), Yahya saw action during World War II in North Africa where he was captured by the Axis Forces in June 1942 and interned in a prisoner of war camp in Italy from where he escaped in the third attempt.
- In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966.
- The regime worked for the safe repatriation of Norwegians held in German prisoner-of-war camps.
- On 24 August 2010, during a shipboard ceremony, Stethem was posthumously honored to the rank of Master Chief Constructionman (CUCM) by the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy and given the Prisoner of War Medal.
- The "London Cage", an MI19 prisoner of war facility in London used during and immediately after the war to interrogate prisoners before sending them to prison camps, was subject to allegations of torture.
- It was a charity match in aid of the Prisoner of War Fund between Welsh and American teams of the U.S.
- During World War I there was a major prisoner of war camp at Limburg an der Lahn.
- Germany operated a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, Oflag X-C, near the city from 1940 until April 1945.
- He was sent to the Russian front in 1944 where he quickly became a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1948.
- "Oberleutnant zur See" Iwan Crompton, after returning to Germany from a prisoner-of-war camp, reported that "Baralong" had run down the lifeboat he was in; he leapt clear and was soon afterward taken aboard "Baralong".
- Another example occurred in 1966 when prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton, brought on television by his North Vietnamese captors, Morse-blinked the word [...].
- Many prisoners died, and the remaining were evacuated to the main camp of Groß-Rosen in January 1945.
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