| Taken prisoner, he was jailed and as a POW served time in Wakefield and Frongoch prisons. |
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| There isn't a single family that didn't have horror stories to tell about the POW that came home. |
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| For example, artillery crewmen could be asked to do a rotation at a POW camp or a refugee camp. |
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| Of all the people to make mock of the depravity visited upon those prisoners, a former POW is the last one I'd expect to see doing it. |
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| After a period of intense interrogation under torturous conditions, he is sent to a POW camp. |
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| Like an POW in a British prison camp, I was gonna have to stay on my guard. |
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| What need for creating a fuse for a time bomb could Price possibly have while stuck in a POW camp? |
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| Here's a case where a POW was likely murdered, yet they are the same ones insisting that we leave the despot in power. |
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| My story as a POW pales beside the stories of those who were terribly maimed or burned in the war and then left to fend for themselves. |
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| In MEZIERE, the infantry gave me some 25 prisoners and told me the direction to the POW cage. |
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| After Germany occupied Poland, he avoided capture as a POW and returned home. |
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| Mr. Smith is a former prisoner of war who had been incarcerated in a POW camp in Japan for 4 years. |
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| There I was informed by a captain of the Algonquins Regt that there was no POW cage near. |
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| For desperate Allied servicemen on the run from World War Two POW camps, the winding snowbound passes of the Pyrenees were just one of many obstacles on the long journey home. |
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| A map shows each station on the route, along with marking POW camps and other landmarks along the way. |
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| I had the pleasure of doing this on June 3, 1993 in support of my merchant navy POW shipmates. |
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| Unwittingly, the Ukrainian-born, German POW and death camp guard reversed over 140 years of German jurisprudence. |
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| They're protesting changes to prison rules that have removed their POW perqs. |
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| Guerrillas, for example, usually do not wear a uniform or carry arms openly, but captured guerrillas are often granted POW status. |
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| During World War I, about eight million men surrendered and were held in POW camps until the war ended. |
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| In 1946, the UK had more than 400,000 German prisoners, many had been transferred from POW camps in the US and Canada. |
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| Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks. |
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| Most Afrika Korps POWs were transported to the United States and held in Camp Shelby in Mississippi and other POW camps until the end of the war. |
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| They were taken to Salonica and put into solitary confinement for a month before transfer to POW camps in Germany. |
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| I do not intend to go into the merchant navy POW situation that Mr. Gordon Olmstead has championed so well, and which has been now placed in the capable hands of a fellow shipmate and former POW, George Shaker. |
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| The POW is then approved by a steering committee and executed by COE personnel. |
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| He was sent to Dyffryn Aled POW camp near Llansannan in Denbighshire, after a short stay at Chatham's naval hospital. |
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| A prisoner-of-war chess set created by an American lieutenant while at Stalag Luft I, a POW camp near Barth, Germany. |
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| A BRAVE war veteran has told for the first time his incredible story of survival in brutal Japanese POW camps. |
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| In fact, three George Crosses were awarded for Korea, all of them for extreme fortitude in POW camps. |
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| Addison was eventually sent to Stalag VIIIB at Lamsdorf in Silesia, which was part of one of the largest German POW camps. |
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| In contrast to impressions of the tourists, the comments made by ex-POWs do not indicate that harsh treatment by their captors took place at the POW camp. |
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| So Harry's POW chapter, which includes wives and widows, is hosting a welcome-home party Wednesday at the Sepulveda VA in North Hills for all returning veterans. |
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| Together with Walter Hicks, an Australian POW at Ambon, Weiss decided to write to Ikeuchi's widow to express his sorrow at what had happened over fifty years ago. |
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| In the latter case, the person would have been involved in the war for three years and then taken prisoner, whereas in the first case, the person would have had almost no involvement in the war, but was a POW for four years. |
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| Nevertheless, Maxime Weygand signed the surrender instrument and the army was ordered out of their fortifications, to be taken to POW camps. |
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| About eight million men surrendered and were held in POW camps during the war. |
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| Between 1916 and 1918, the ICRC published a number of postcards with scenes from the POW camps. |
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| By the end of the war, 179 delegates had conducted 12,750 visits to POW camps in 41 countries. |
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| Many cases of POW massacres have been reported in recent times, including October 13 massacre in Lebanon by Syrian forces and June 1990 massacre in Sri Lanka. |
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| There were stories during the Cold War to the effect that 23,000 Americans who had been held in German POW camps were seized by the Soviets and never repatriated. |
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| Life in the POW camps was recorded at great risk to themselves by artists such as Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky, Ashley George Old, and Ronald Searle. |
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| The prisoners were then sent by rail to POW camps in Germany. |
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| He was twice recaptured when he got out of POW camps in England. |
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| Study pictures of POW camps and you'll see no overweight inmates. |
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| Lawrence, in which David Bowie's New Zealand army officer bewitches the tough Japanese POW camp commander who tortures him, played by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. |
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