Sentences with phrase «as prisoners of war during»

The Hỏa Lò Prison, also known as the Hanoi Hilton, where several Americans (including John McCain) were held as prisoners of war during the Vietnam War, as well as the Hanoi Opera House.

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A few years before he passed away, we sat down together to record the story of his life as a prisoner under the Japanese during World War Two.

My own father, hardened by bitterness that encrusted him during four years spent as a half - starved prisoner of war, walked to the front of a church at the conclusion of a service because he decided to follow Christ.

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 war at a Japanese labour camp during World War War II.

I enjoyed reading War Trash, in that it was an excellent account of life as a Chinese prisoner of war during the Korean WWar Trash, in that it was an excellent account of life as a Chinese prisoner of war during the Korean Wwar during the Korean WarWar.

For a time, during the second world war, the Gili islands were used by Japanese forces as a look out post and also a prisoner of war camp.

Blue Room takes its title from two types of space which employ ambient lighting as a system of control: a dimly lit command center used to monitor airspace during the Cold War, and a calm room used to pacify prisoners in solitary confinement.

Masha Bruskina was a nurse and leader of the Minsk (Belarus) resistance movement during World War II; a 17 - year - old Communist partisan, she posed as a gentile in order to help wounded Soviet prisoners escape from Nazi - held territories.

Fort D.A. Russell started out as Camp Marfa, headquarters for the Big Bend Military District during the Mexican Revolution, then became a cavalry fort, housed German prisoners of war during World War II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch lawar during World War II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch laWar II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch land.

Trained in medicine, he served as a doctor in North Africa during World War Two, but was taken prisoner in 1943 and interned in a prisoner - of - war camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paiWar Two, but was taken prisoner in 1943 and interned in a prisoner - of - war camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paiwar camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paint.

Elaborating on the 1842 suggestion of the French mathematician Joseph A. Adhémar, Milutin Milankovitch proposed during World War I that the sunlight reaching the higher latitudes controlled the ice ages (he did his laborious calculations as a prisoner of war), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were importaWar I that the sunlight reaching the higher latitudes controlled the ice ages (he did his laborious calculations as a prisoner of war), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were importawar), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were important.

There are many museums that are great to bring the whole family, such as the Smith County Historical Society, or Camp Ford, which was the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp located west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War.