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POWs

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77 Squadron lost three Meteors on this occasion, with one pilot killed and two becoming POWs, while claiming one MiG destroyed and one damaged. Source: Internet

Accounts of the killing vary, but at least 84 of the POWs were murdered. Source: Internet

According to the reports of China, over a thousand U.S. POWs died by the end of June 1951, while only a dozen British POWs died, and all Turkish POW survived. Source: Internet

Although it was not known at the time of the air strike, 31 other POWs from the same SAS unit, and an American airman who had joined up with the SAS unit, had also been executed. Source: Internet

After realising that the passengers were primarily POWs and civilians Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl Memoirs, Ten Years and Twenty Days: Frontline Books, 1990, p. 255 the U-boat started rescue operations while flying the Red Cross flag. Source: Internet

Alexander, Man of the People, p. 64 From late 1969 onward, treatment of McCain and many of the other POWs became more tolerable, Rochester and Kiley, Honor Bound, pp. 489–91 while McCain continued actively to resist the camp authorities. Source: Internet

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