Sentences with phrase «killed in action»

The claim succeeded partly because the first husband was killed in action and partly because his estate was worth very little.

But as the husband was killed in action, the threshold rose to # 5,000.

Mr KIA ie Mr Killed In Action, is much relieved about that.

The work is abstract in nature, depicting powerful imagery of war (medals, banners and flags) as well as imagery associated with a particular German officer - Karl von Freyburg, a young cavalry officer who had recently been killed in action.

Artist Statement «Seven Foot tall statue of an Army Platoon Radio Operator honoring U.S. Armed Forces killed in action, are still missing inaction, or were held as POWs in the Korean...

In particular, they memorialize the artist's cherished friend Karl von Freyburg, a young German lieutenant killed in action during World War I.

Dickey Chapelle, the first American woman photojournalist killed in action, captured historical moments from Iwo Jima to the Vietnam War.

The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter, Vietnam, 1966.

Camp Candlesticks Identified to Chaplain Arthur B. Fuller, 16th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Killed in Action at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

When war broke out the officer was called up, and was killed in action in October 1914.

Hanson's early works comprised life - sized tableaux — depicting soldiers killed in action, police brutality and homeless people — that confront the viewer with devastating truths.

When an investigation of a research facility on the IMC controlled planet of Typhon goes wrong, Lastimosa is killed in action, there is no other option but for the two to link up and work together to finish the mission BT and Lastimosa started.

Those that survive the operations will be rewarded with a rank increase, those that are killed in action will be lost forever.

It shows the Normandy in pretty bad shape and declares our hero (insert name) Shepard killed in action.

Now, at first you might think these tokens encourage players to race for the safe spaces, but in reality a glorious death can be a good thing because for every Viking killed in action you progress up the black track on the left of the board, which will earn you points toward the end of the game.

Since May 2010, 14 military working dogs have been killed in action.

Orienting the narrative around his veteran grandfather, Nelson profiles a U.S. infantry unit that lost 84 men killed in action, from the American debut at Cantigny to the mud, fog, and forest of the Meuse - Argonne.

As they survive one near miss after another, Annie realizes that her rescuer is someone special — his real name is Dean Baylor, and he's the leader of a Navy SEAL team presumed to be killed in action.

Although Marines made up just 15 % of the 3.4 million troops deployed in Southeast Asia at the time, they accounted for over 25 % (13,091) of those killed in action and over 33 % (51,392) of those wounded.

April 22, 2004: In an event that served as a lowlight for U.S. military efforts post Sept. 11, 2001, Army Ranger Pat Tillman was killed in action.

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Hart is asked to suggest a replacement for another agent who was killed in action.

Theron absolutely killed it in this action packed film.

SYNOPSIS: A family is in mourning after their son is killed in action while away in the military.

But when their assistant driver is killed in action, clerk typist Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) is ordered to replace him, despite having no experience on the battlefield.

But when Kyle is killed in action, Max is shipped home to recuperate and learn to live without him.

Among the scientists is Natalie Portman's Lena, the wife of Oscar Isaacs, who spent the last year believing he was killed in action, on his covert mission.

It remains to be seen whether MGM can sustain any reasonable Oscar campaign for the film, but one thing that seems to be standing out is Tobey Maguire's performance as a P.O.W. in Afghanistan thought to be killed in action.

Reprising their roles from The Expendables, this team of mercenaries (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li) takes on what should be an easy job, but turns into a mission of revenge when one of the guys is killed in action.

WHAT: When he's ordered onto the front lines as part of a synchronized attack against alien invaders, Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is killed in action... only to discover that he's been infected with the aliens» ability to control time.

The story, such as it is, is recounted in flashbacks by the 16 - year - old narrator - hero, David, as he sits alone in a train compartment at night, looking out the window at the dark countryside; it has to do with the deterioration of his father, Frank (Denis Leary), after he loses his factory job (he becomes a wife beater), and then of his mother, Sarah (Diana Scarwid), after Frank goes overseas to fight in Italy and is killed in action (she gradually goes mad).

This loose adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play, written and directed by John Huston (with Richard Brooks serving as co-scripter), casts Bogart as Frank McCloud, a WWII veteran who arrives in Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to James and Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore and Bacall), the father and widow of one of his friends killed in action.

The story concerns a squad of men, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), that has been ordered on a morale - boosting public relations mission to go behind enemy lines in France and find Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have all been killed in action.

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action.

When CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is killed in action, his superior Quaker Wells (Gary...

The trio of leads all have carefully delineated back stories that provide easy to understand motivations for their actions: the ex-pilot whose brother and fellow jaeger pilot was killed in action (Charlie Hunnam); the wannabe pilot whose family was killed by a kaiju (Rinko Kikuchi); the military leader whose suspicious nosebleeds are a none - too - subtle indicatator of serious health problems (Idris Elba).

The title dog belongs to soldier Kyle Wincott (Robbie Amell), but is taken in by his family when Kyle is killed in action.

Japanese - Americans in California are interned in camps, though the husband of one inmate fought for the U.S. and is shown in military attire (he was killed in action).

We first meet Messner at the funeral of one of his boyhood friends, killed in action in Korea, and he has to be forced into paying his respects to the deceased's mother, and he then glibly dismisses his dead friend as an idiot for getting drafted in the first place.

Call it War Dog — Max is the story of a dog trained to work with military units in Afghanistan, who finds a new life with family in the States after his handler is killed in action.

When CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is killed in action, his superior Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman) tries to do everything he can to find out everything Pope knew before his death.

Synopsis: Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Title: R.I.P.D (2013) Director: Robert Schwentke (Flightplan) Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Mary - Louise Parker Plot: When Boston cop Nick (Reynolds) is killed in action instead of going straight -LSB-...]

Dan Stevens plays a soldier who visits the Peterson family, claiming to have been a close friend of their son, who was killed in action.

At any moment, they could receive news that any one of the three men in the family has been killed in action.

It is about the aftermath, when soldiers are employed to visit the families of those killed in action and give them the horrible news.

I was attending one of his early book signings this past October and in the opening chapter the former Congressman talked about Sergeant Chris Pusateri, who was killed in action, under then LTC Gibson's command in Iraq 2005.

Gordon Brown began by paying tribute to those recently killed in action overseas.

«Am saying this against the background of the unfortunate incident that happened here in this particular place where eleven of our colleagues where unfortunately killed in action.

It is in that spirit, then, that the city should welcome the DEP training center, which incidentally will retain the name of hometown hero Robert H. Dietz, killed in action in Germany 70 years ago on March 29.