Sentences with phrase «army as prisoners»

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She was captured by the Confederate army and kept as a prisoner of war.

I obviously do not wish to belittle the significance of the deaths of people in the other groups - ethnic Poles, Slovenians, Homosexuals, left - wing political activists, disabled people, Roma, and arguably also prisoners of war from the USSR (my own grandfather was both a Jew and a soldier in the Red Army); and it's important to mention them as well.

Bailey was taken prisoner in 1944 by German soldiers while serving as a Second Lieutenant Pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, The Galleries, 440 South Warren St., Suite 711 (7th Floor), Syracuse.

My uncle was drafted into the army right out of school, and when I was born, he had just returned from the Soviet Union after 10 years as a prisoner of war.

As such, the army looks for a soldier to escort its prisoner, Chief Yellowhawk to his Montana digs.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II.

CAST: Paul Rudd (This is 40, Role Models) as Ant - Man / Scott Lang, Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Lost) as Hope van Dyne, Corey Stoll (This Is Where I Leave You, The Bourne Legacy) as Yellowjacket / Darren Cross, Bobby Cannavale (Spy, Chef), Michael Peña (Cesar Chavez, The Martian), Tip «T.I.» Harris (Identity Thief, Entourage), Wood Harris (Justified, The Wire), Judy Greer (Tomorrowland, 13 Going on 30), David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight, Prisoners), as Paxton, and Michael Douglas (Last Vegas, The Game) as Dr. Hank Pym.

Summary: Salma Hayek takes no prisoners in this action packed thriller as a femme fatale unleashing the ultimate vengeance against a sadistic mob boss and his army of assassins.

In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty - seven - year - old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.

We witness Hercules» rise from birth (with some electrical assistance from his father Zeus) to his position as the powerful leader of armies and prisoner to his sweetheart, Princess Hebe (what a name!)

While his people settled on the Great Sioux Reservation, Sitting Bull served 20 months as a prisoner in a U.S. Army fort.

The scored, scraped and blemished metal itself becomes a body of gashes and scars, hinting at Burri's original medical vocation as a military surgeon in the Italian army, first in the mid-1930s and later in the Second World War, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five years.

[41] Other paintings depict confessions or letters from prisoners of all kinds and their families (parents pleading that the Army discharge rather than court - martial their sons); autopsy and interrogation reports; or exchanges concerning torture, as well as prisoners» handprints and maps of Baghdad.

However, as a baleful aside, the virtuosic Trump's Entry into Washington (2017) presents a bestial Trump triumphantly presiding over a hoard of supporters, armies of police, KKK members and prisoners — who include his own staff.

Presidential signing statements, rejection of oversight, refusals to testify, unequal application of law for the rich and white, abuse of Social Security, road and other trust funds, abuse of prisoners in violation of international treaties, refusal to reveal special industry consultants to the president, invasion of privacy in defiance of law and the Constitution as generally understood, expansion of U.S. presence abroad without informing Congress, a secret intelligence establishment big enough to field armies yet unable to provide reliable intelligence.

For example, the President would be entirely within his rights to order General A to report to the Barracks at Fort Levenworth (a military prison) or to a maintenance detail in a South Korean Army base, as active duty personnel individual assigned to that duty (i.e. not detained as a prisoner) and to await further orders.

I drove back to my office with visions of the climactic scene from «The Bridge Over the River Kwai,» the scene where after British prisoners of war sweat blood, toil, tears and sweat to build a bridge for the Japanese army, American commandoes blow it up as the first train is crossing.

Services for prisoners which currently exist that provide a range of support services as well as housing advice and referral include the Salvation Army Prison Support Service (through its XCELL program), InsideOut, Colony 47 and Anglicare.