A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage...
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A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power...
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The Prisoner of War Medal is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald...
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were prisoners of war (POWs) and those who are still missing in action (MIA). It is most associated with those who were POWs during the Vietnam War. National...
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During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to...
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Look up prisoner of war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A prisoner of war is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody...
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list of prisoner-of-war escapes includes successful and unsuccessful attempts in chronological order, where possible. In the beginning of the war Hans...
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For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II This set index...
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Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike...
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of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived...
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