prisoner of war compound

A subdivision of a prisoner of war enclosure.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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(9) The site--which was originally established as a prisoner of war compound, but had not yet been used--was modified to house U.S.

Penal institutions in the European theater of operations

Instead, we went to the prisoner of war compound to try to get some Krauts to clean out the entire building, or what was left of it, but at the compound they told us that we would be moving out shortly and we couldn't stay long enough to have them complete the job.

Sergeant Cohen's war: a memoir of victory, liberation, and loss

During World War II, Camp Blanding, located on Kingsley Lake south of Orange Park, Florida, served as an infantry replacement center where 800,000 soldiers were trained and as a prisoner of war compound. Today Camp Blanding belongs to the Florida National Guard.

Camp Blanding digs in with 65 miles of all new lines

(2) Memorandum, Senior Defense Counsel, US Army Trial Defense Service Fort Clayton, SOJA-TDS, Empire Range Prisoner of War Compound (24 December 1990); Article 129-33, Convention III at 2.

Sorting the wolves from the sheep

When the Americans surrendered, about 70,00 starving and malarial men staggered out of the jungle into prisoner of war compounds administered by a much smaller force of Japanese, also short of food and medicine.