- Duncan Pow
Duncan Pow is an Scottish actor best known in his role in Sky One's "Dream Team", as Liam Mackay the captain of Harchester United F.C.. He has formerly worked as an auctioneer at Bid-Up.tv - John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, decorated war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", … - Lethal Bizzle
Lethal Bizzle (also known as Lethal B, born Maxwell Ansah) 23, is a rapper from, Walthamstow, East London, born to Ghanaian parents. In December 2004 he released the single "Pow (Forward)", also known as "Forward Riddim", which was banned from airplay by some mainstream stations; it entered the UK Singles Chart at number 11 in the first chart of 2005 and number one on the UK Dance Chart. Whilst he was a part of the group More Fire Crew, … - Dieter Dengler
Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 - February 7, 2001) was a United States Navy pilot during the Vietnam War. He was the sole survivor of an escape attempt from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos. - James Clavell
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was a novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II hero and POW. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as "The Great Escape" and "To Sir, with Love". - Patrick Miller
Private First Class Patrick Miller was a mechanic, a member of the US Army 507th Maintenance Company, and became a POW in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was awarded the Silver Star for valor. - John Ward
John Ward (1921 - 1995) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) airman (Flight Lieutenant), an ex-POW, and a member of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (Home Army) in occupied Poland of Second World War. Ward was born in the Birmingham suburb of Ward End and joined the RAF in 1937, aged 18, as a wireless operator. Shot down by the Germans in the early phase of the war (in 1940), he escaped the POW camp in April 1941 and joined the Polish resistance. - Ron Arad
Ron Arad (born May 5, 1958) is an Israeli Air Force weapon systems officer (WSO) who is officially classified as missing in action but widely presumed dead. - Ron Young
Ronald Young Jr. was a former POW in the 2003 Gulf military action against Iraq who later became a contestant in the reality show "The Amazing Race 7". - Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for his combination of psychology and adventure, most famously in "The Bridge over the River Kwai" (1952) and "Planet of the Apes" (1963). - Ernest Gordon
Ernest Gordon (1917 - 16 January 2002) was the former dean of the chapel at Princeton University. A native of Scotland, Gordon spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. He chronicled his experiences on the Death Railway in his book "Through the Valley of the Kwai". The book served as an inspiration to the film To End All Wars which opened in 2002. - Bobby Garwood
Often cited as the last American POW from the Vietnam War, Robert Russell Garwood was captured on September 28th, 1965 in the Quang Nam province. He was reportedly released in 1973 along with all other American POWs, but did not return to the United States until 1979 - having either volunteered or been forced into a work group to help repair a generator located at an unnamed "Island fortress" in North Vietnam. US Marine Lt. - Jack Edwards
Jack Edwards, OBE (Chinese: 艾華士, 24 May 1918 - 13 August 2006), was a former British World War II army sergeant and a POW survivor, most well known for his dedicated efforts of tracking down Japanese war criminals and the relentless determination displayed in defending the rights of Hong Kong war veterans. - Charles Dean
Charles "Charlie" Dean was the brother of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Democracy for America Chairman Jim Dean and political activist Bill Dean. In 1974, Charlie, who had been traveling through southeast Asia at the time, was captured and killed by Pathet Lao guerrillas. His death and the subsequent repatriation of his remains to the United States have been the subject of speculation and controversy. - Georges Sada
General Georges Hormiz Sada (aka Gewargis or George Hormis; Arabic: كوركيس هرمز ساده, Syriac: <big><big>ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܗܪܡܙ ܣܕܐ</big></big>; born 1939?) is an Iraqi of Assyrian descent, an author and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force. Sada was born to a Assyrian family in Northern Iraq, that belonged to the Chaldean Catholic Church before becoming a 'born-again' Christian. - Neville Brand
Neville Brand, was an American television and movie actor. Gravel-voiced Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa. He started his big screen career in "D.O.A." (1950) as a henchman named Chester. He became well known as a villain when he killed the character played by Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender". He played the villain in so many movies, his self-image became affected, … - Jerry Coffee
Gerald L. Coffee (born 1935) in Modesto, California, is a former 2006 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Hawaii. Coffee won the nomination, but suspended his campaign after heart surgery, and later formally withdrew. Coffee served in Vietnam where he was a POW for 7 years, much of it in the "Hanoi Hilton". His military decorations include the Silver Star, two awards of the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Bronze Star Medals, the Air Medal, … - Hans-Jürgen von Arnim
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, was a German colonel-general of cavalry, serving during World War II. He was born in Ernsdorf, Germany in 1889, the son of General Sixt von Arnim. Hans-Jürgen von Arnim served in the German Army from 1907 until the end of World War II. During the First World War he saw action on both the Eastern and Western fronts. After the war he remained in the Army and rose to command the elite 68th Infantry Regiment in Berlin. - Georg Ratzinger
"Reverend Monsignor" Georg Ratzinger (born January 15, 1924) is a German Catholic priest and musician, well known as the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger was born in Bavaria to Joseph Ratzinger, Sr., a police officer. Early in his life he showed musical talent, playing the church organ already at the age of 11. In 1935 he entered the minor seminary in Traunstein and had professional musical instruction there. - Agnes Newton Keith
Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton Keith (July 6 1901 - March 30 1982) was an American author best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after the Second World War. The second of these, "Three Came Home", tells of her time in a Japanese POW and civilian internee camp in Sarawak and was made in to a film. In all, she published seven books. - Józef Beck
Józef Beck was a Polish statesman, diplomat, military officer, and close associate of Józef Piłsudski. After the outbreak of World War I, Beck was a member of the clandestine Polish Military Organization ("Polska Organizacja Wojskowa", or "POW") founded in October 1914 by Piłsudski. In 1914-1917 Beck served in the First Brigade of the Polish Legions, and was aide to Piłsudski. - Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (born May 26, 1925) is a British actor. Dotrice was born in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. He served in World War II, and was imprisoned in a German POW camp. He married Kay Newman in 1947, and they have three children: Michele, Yvette and Karen, all of whom are actresses. Dotrice is arguably best known to North American audiences for playing the role of "Father" in the 1980s hit TV series, "Beauty and the Beast", … - Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach
Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (August 22 1888 in Hamburg, Germany - April 28, 1976 in Bremen) was a German general. He was born in the noble Prussian Seydlitz family. During WWI he participated on both fronts as an officer. During the Weimar Republic he remained a professional officer in the Reichswehr. He held the rank of general der artillerie during the Battle of Stalingrad where he was captured by Soviet forces. - Werner Drechsler
Werner Drechsler (born January 17, 1923, in Mühlberg, Germany - died March 12, 1944 in Papago Park, Arizona) was a German U-boat crewman during World War II. He was stationed on U-118 which was sunk off the Azores in 1943. When he was taken prisoner he enthusiastically cooperated with his captors due to the fact that his father had spent time in one of Hitler's Concentration Camps as a political prisoner. - Clemens Forell
Lt. Clemens Forell was a German POW, who, after WWII, was sentenced to the Siberian Gulag in Russia for 25 years. During this time, he escaped and traveled all the way from the Soviet GULAG lead mines at Cape Deschev (East Cape), Siberia, to Iran. After interrogation by Iranian police, who suspected him of being a Soviet spy, he was identified by his uncle. He arrived home in Munich in December 1952 3 years and 2 months after escaping. - Floyd James Thompson
Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (July 8, 1933 (Bergenfield, New Jersey) - July 16, 2002 (Key West, Florida)) was the longest held POW in United States history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in Vietnam. =Early life= =Military Career= Thompson worked in a grocery store before he was drafted by the United States Army on June 14, 1956. After basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, Thompson decided to make the military his career. - Arthur Greiser
Arthur Greiser. *Torture, persecution, and injuring civilians and POWs. *Organised and systematic destruction of Polish culture, plunder of Polish cultural heritage, Germanisation of the country and the Polish people, illegal appopriation of public property. *Organised and systematic looting of Polish property. *Insulting and deriding the Polish nation by propagating its cultural inferiority and low social worth *Forcible expeling whole districts, streets, … - Stanisław Taczak
Stanisław Taczak was a Polish general. Till 8 January 1919 temporary commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919). After the Invasion of Poland (1939) of 1939 he was imprisoned in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Germany. - Michael Sinclair
Lieutenant Michael Sinclair, DSO ("ca." 1918 - 25 September 1944), known as the Red Fox, was a British prisoner at Colditz Castle (POW camp Oflag IV-C) during World War II. He was involved in a number of escape attempts throughout the war and was recognized within the camp for his determination to escape. - Giles Romilly
Giles Samuel Bertram Romilly, (September 19 1916 - August 2 1967), was a journalist, Nazi POW, brother of Esmond Romilly and nephew of Winston Churchill. He served as a war correspondent in both the Spanish Civil War and in World War II. However, he was captured in October 1941 in the Norwegian town of Narvik while reporting for the Daily Express. Romilly was the first German prisoner to be classified as "Prominente", … - Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru was raised by his grandfather, a former Samurai before the Meiji Revolution, and by his mother, a devout follower of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism. - Lucien Laurent
Lucien Laurent (born December 10, 1907 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, Ile-de-France near Paris; died April 11, 2005 in Besançon) was a French footballer, famous for scoring the first ever World Cup goal. Between 1921 and 1930, Laurent played for the semi-professional team Cercle Athlétique de Paris, before being taken on by Sochaux, then a works team for the car manufacturer Peugeot, where he worked. - Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
Michał Tadeusz Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, Coat of arms of Trąby pseudonym Doktor, Stolarski, Torwid (b. January 5, 1893 in Lwów - May 22, 1964 in Casablanca, Morocco) was a Polish general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service". Michał served in the Polish Legions from 1914 until 1917, then in the POW (Polish Military Organization). - Winfield S. Cunningham
Winfield Scott Cunningham (16 February 1900 - 3 March 1986) was the Officer in Charge, Naval Activities, Wake Island when the tiny island was attacked by the Japanese on 8 December 1941. Cunningham commanded the defense of the island against the massive Japanese attack. After 26 days, the island was surrendered to the Japanese. Cunningham was taken prisoner and held as a POW in Japan. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his leadership at Wake Island. - Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920-16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, Political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Oodgeroo was born in Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) in Moreton Bay (east of Brisbane), … - Michael Woodruff
Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff FRS (3 April 1911 - 10 March 2001) was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed his studies shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps, … - Bruce Eberle
Bruce W. Eberle (b. Dec 14, 1943 in Saint Joseph, Missouri) is founder of the Eberle Communications Group, Eberle & Associates, Inc (1974) and the MillionsofAmericans.com conservative web site. He is also a board member of a number of Christian non-profit organizations. - Karl Bischoff
SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Karl Bischoff, German architect & engineer. Born near Kaiserslautern, Germany. At the age of twenty he joined the German Air Force. In 1935 he obtained a job at the Luftwaffe Construction Bureau. During the early years of the Second World War he was involved in the building of airports in France. In this position he met SS-Gruppenführer Hans Kammler, who was responsible for the SS-Amt II (Building), later to become Amtsgruppe C of the WVHA. - Ralph Cheli
Ralph Cheli was a Major in the USAAF and served as the Commanding Officer of 405th Medium Bombardment Squadron flying B-25's in the Fifth Air Force in New Guinea. Born in San Francisco, he attended Lehigh University as member of the class of 1941. With the start of US involvement in World War II, he left in his junior year to join the USAAF as an aviation cadet. - Vittorio Sereni
Vittorio Sereni (born July 27, 1913, Luino, Italy; died February 10, 1983, Milan) was an Italian poet, author, editor, and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat, and its postwar resurgence. Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936. In 1938, he co-founded the literary review "Corrente". In 1941, he published "Frontiera", his first collection of poetry.
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