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Definition of Pow camp
1. Noun. A camp for prisoners of war.
Generic synonyms: Camp
Specialized synonyms: Gulag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pow Camp
| POP3 POR POSITA POSIX POST POTD POTS POTUS POUM POV | POVs POW POW camp POWs PO Box No PO box PO box number PP PP&H PPB | PPE PPG PPH PPI PPK PPL PPLO |
Literary usage of Pow camp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Negotiating While Fighting: The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean by Charles Turner Joy, Allan E. Goodman (1978)
""You have moved large amounts of armed forces to the locality of your POW camp
for further slaughter and atrocities. According to your own official rpts ..."
2. Accounting for Pow/Mias from the Korean War and the Vietnam War: Hearing edited by Robert K. Dornan (1998)
"On 31 May 1992, Colonel Teo and I accompanied a team of American specialists that
visited several sites in Hanoi, including one former POW camp. ..."
3. Peking and the Pekingese During the First Year of the British Embassy at Peking by David Field Rennie (1865)
"... news—The Ya-mun —An apothecary's shop—Business visit to the Prince of Kung—
The Imperial hunting-grounds—Shung-pow's camp—Athletes— The Hau-lin—Attempt ..."
4. Alliance Adrift by Yoichi Funabashi (1999)
"He was taken on a US army truck to the Yaka POW camp in the township of Kin. ...
You shouldn't be put in a POW camp. Get off here and do something good for ..."
5. Soviet Defectors: The KGB Wanted List by Vladislav Krasnov (1986)
"... fourth-grade education, former Soviet army soldier; taken prisoner by the
Germans, from August 1941 served as a policeman at the POW camp in Dvinsk. ..."
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