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Gregory "Pappy" Boyington – US Marine Corps Fighter Ace during WWII, Medal of Honor recipient. Fernand Braudel – historian, was a POW in WWII. Frank Buckles – the last surviving American veteran of WWI, was a civilian during WWII when imprisoned by the Japanese. Roger Bushell – South African-born RAF Squadron Leader.
For other uses, see POW (disambiguation) and Prisoner of war (disambiguation). 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 of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France. List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom.
The number of prisoners who died during the war would be 751,000 (8.7% of the total), including 478,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, 122,000 Germans, 38,963 French in Germany. [15] 411,000 prisoners died in Russia (the majority of them Austro-Hungarian), [16] and more than 100,000 Italian prisoners out of 350,000 in Austria-Hungary.
The British Free Corps (abbr. BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps) was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany. The unit was originally known as the Legion of St George. [ 2 ] Research by British historian Adrian Weale has identified 54 men [ 1 ...
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
This is an incomplete list of Prisoner of War (POW) Camps located in the United Kingdom during World War II. [1]German POWs in England were graded as follows: "Grade A (white) were considered anti-Nazi; Grade B (grey) had less clear feelings and were considered not as reliable as the 'whites'; Grade C (black) had probable Nazi leanings; Grade C+ (also Black) were deemed ardent Nazis."
July 23/24, 1918 – Holzminden officers' prisoner-of-war camp. Ten of 29 British officers made their way to freedom, making this "the most successful escape from a German prison camp during the First World War". [8] 1918 – US Navy Lieutenant Edouard Izac was taken prisoner aboard the U-boat which sank his ship in May 1918. On the trip to ...