Sentences with phrase «over as a prisoner of war»

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WASHINGTON, April 11 — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First - Person Account John McCain spent over 5 years in captivity as a POW in North Vietnam, and wrote about it in May 1973.

Angelina Jolie's second film as director tells the extraordinary story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic long - distance runner who fought as a bombardier in the second world war and survived 47 days adrift after being shot down over the Pacific before being taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Hundreds more were detained as prisoners of war, and over 730 U.S. merchant ships were sunk or damaged.

Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War War II.

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.

Hardiness and sensation seeking as potential predictors of former prisoners of wars» posttraumatic stress symptoms trajectories over a 17 - year period.