Sentences with phrase «of war camp»

Even though they were finally out of the water, they were placed in horrible conditions at a prisoner of war camp.

The men's titles from 1943 - 45 were won by 6» 5 Yvon Petra, freshly released from a German prisoner of war camp where he had been held after being captured in battle while fighting in the French Army (Petra went on to win Wimbledon in 1946, becoming the last champ to take Centre Court in long trousers).

Director Angelina Jolie's Unbroken is based on Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 non-fiction account of US Olympic athlete Louie Zamperini's harrowing experience in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.

He spent time, you know, some years in Japanese prisoner of war camps in Indonesia where he was starved, and that began a kind of lifelong obsession with food, nutrition, survival and so on.

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner of war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

He was active in Y.M.C.A. work; he did chaplain work for Camp Douglas, a prisoner of war camp just south of Chicago; he carried on his regular Sunday school work; and he started Sunday evening services.

Zamperini, played by Jack O'Connell, was held in a prisoner of war camp by the Japanese navy for two years; prior to that he spent 47 days at sea in a raft, after a bomber he was flying in crash - landed in the Pacific.

The soldiers» plight at sea and experience at a prisoner of war camp meant that Domhnall had to lose weight for the role.

Earlier that year, the Apache chief Geronimo died in a prisoner of war camp at the age of nearly ninety.

A secondary theme is that of cowardice and shame - from the shame of an unwanted pregnancy through to the corporate shame of an entire prisoner of war camp believing themselves cowards for having been captured.

The first few times I tried to rescue hostages from the prison of war camps, it began with success and ended with complete failure as I crashed into the ground.

Eight miles south of Pickering, Eden Camp is an authentic World War II prisoner of war camp used to detain Italian and German soldiers captured by the Allies on the battlefields of Europe.

The museum, house in the bridge's towers, was opened in 1980, and tells the story of both the bridge's history and that of the nearby US prisoner of war camp known as the Golden Mile.

Here's some rather exciting news from Gears of War camp — Epic are set to release a downloadable campaign expansion to their recent shooter on December 13.

For instance, Howard, the Postmaster from issue # 1, lets Jebediah know that the Sheriff he's seeking is down by Toluca Lake overseeing the conversion of the prisoner of war camp into a normal criminal prison.

O'Connell plays real life survivor Lau Zamperelli, a former Olympic runner who became an Air Force pilot during WWII who was shot down and spent 40 dayson a raft at sea before being picked up by the Japanese and interred in a prisoner of war camp where he endured horrifying torture.

Austere and old - fashioned almost to a fault, «The Railway Man» offers tastefully safe treatment of a horrific subject: the torture of a British Army officer at a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.

John Sturges» The Great Escape tells the true story of the daring prison break attempt at the German Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944.

Former Olympic athlete and survivor of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Louis Zamperini, is something of a household name in the US.

Dr Caskie, who was born in Islay, was finally imprisoned by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, but the intervention of a German pastor meant the minster was instead moved to a Prisoner of War camp.

The Japanese Prisoner of War camps are notorious for their cruelty.

We already brought you some concept art and set photos from a «Japanese prisoner of war camp,» but now we...

Stalag 17 (1953): William Holden's cynical turn as a suspected Nazi spy earned him an Oscar in this Billy Wilder gem set inside a World War II prisoner of war camp.

After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily.

Prisoner of war camps have more joy!

Based on a true story, The Railway Man stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax, a British WWII veteran and a survivor of the horrifying conditions and treatment he experienced at a Japanese Prisoner of War camp.

A collection of photos and hand drawn colouring pages of the World War Two bunkers on the British Channel Island of Alderney, which was evacuated and became the base for four prisoner of war camps, and a large fortified wall.

Have you heard the story about the American Naval Officer who escaped from a Prisoner of War camp, swimming up the River Rhine to safety?

The Daily News Stories of courage and loyalty from the war, including Edouard Izac, the American naval officer who escaped from a prisoner of war camp to pass on vital intelligence to his commanders.

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.

It was used by the army to guard Prisoner of War camps, but proved very popular with the underground Militia forces throughout France and Belgium.

After trudging through the prisoner of war camp and partaking in a variety of bloody dull missions which involve even more trudging the war is suddenly over and am evil dictatorship is introduced.

First, though, let's start with the game's narrative: your journey begins in a prisoner of war camp where you take on the role of gruff anti-hero Roy, who takes under his wing a young lad by the name if Innocence.

Our «coach» directs us out of the central area towards one of our war camps.

Burri's career as a painter began in the United States, in a Texas prisoner of war camp.

Horst is transferred to the Western Front where he is captured by the Allies and goes on to spend the rest of the war in an American prisoner of war camp.