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• former U.S. Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtrie Godley testified in 1992 to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs that no POWs remained behind after the end of the Vietnam War?
• in three years during World War II, the U.S. Army prisoner of war camp called Camp Atlanta had more occupants than the nearby town of Atlanta, Nebraska has had in its entire existence?
• during World War II, English biochemist Samuel Victor Perry failed to escape as a prisoner of war on three occasions, and was captured by the same German guard twice?
• during World War II, the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship, the Oryoku Maru?
• a 1967 image by photojournalist Lee Lockwood of American prisoner of war Richard A. Stratton bowing to his North Vietnamese captors brought charges from the U.S. that POWs were being brainwashed?
• many Japanese POWs continued to toil in Siberian labor camps ten years after the end of World War II?
• the "London Cage," a World War II prisoner of war facility commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland, was beset by allegations of torture?
• when Scotsman Alistair Urquhart was a Japanese prisoner of war, he survived the building of the infamous Death Railway, the sinking of a Japanese hell ship, and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki?
• the son of French Admiral Georges René Le Peley de Pléville was released as a prisoner of war because the British Admiralty thanked his peg-legged father for saving a British frigate 10 years earlier?
• the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs?
• the 13th century Venetian troubadour Bertolome Zorzi composed songs while a prisoner of war for seven years in Genoa?
• George Collier (pictured) was shipwrecked, rescued, and then taken prisoner when his rescuer was captured by a privateer?
• Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war from his own experience as a prisoner in those camps?
• Anthony Deane-Drummond, a British Army officer, made two parachute drops, was taken prisoner after both, and escaped each time?
• Romanian princess Catherine Caradja was nicknamed the "Angel of Ploieşti" for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II?
• British WWII prisoner of war John Fancy dug eight tunnels with a table knife and escaped a total of 16 times, but was always recaptured?
• Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?
• Arthur Dodd, a British prisoner of war during World War II, was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz?
• Featherston prisoner of war camp was the site of a riot that lead to the death of 47 Japanese prisoners of war during World War II?
• Paul Bunker died in a Japanese POW camp in 1943 but kept hidden a remnant of the U.S. flag from Corregidor now displayed at the West Point Museum?
• Kenneth Lockwood, one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?
• "Happy Jack" Fellows, a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War, was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
• Francis Mallison was elected to the New York State Assembly after being held as a Union prisoner of war during the American Civil War?
• General Charles G. Boyd, United States Air Force, is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank?