This is not a Wikipedia article: This is a
workpage, a collection of material and work in progress that may or may not be incorporated into [[
List of prisoners of war]]. It should not necessarily be considered factual or authoritative.
This is a list of notable
prisoners of war (POW) whose imprisonment attracted notable attention or influence, or who became famous afterwards.
Ron Arad — Israeli fighter pilot, shot down over Lebanon in 1986. He has not been seen or heard from since 1988 and is widely presumed to be dead.
Bowe Bergdahl — U.S. Army Private First Class soldier captured by the Taliban on June 30, 2009.
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Tom Greenway — American actor, imprisoned for more than a year in Italian and German camps during World War II
James Hargest — Brigadier in World War II. Highly decorated New Zealand politician in World War I and World War II. Escaped from captivity into Switzerland.
Erich Hartmann — "The Blond Knight of Germany". Number one air ace of all air forces in World War II.
Bob Hoover — American World War II pilot, test pilot and airshow performer; captured in 1944 and escaped from
Stalag Luft I
Charles R. Jackson — captured in
Battle of Corregidor and notable for memoir I Am Alive: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Camp
George Millar — Journalist, British soldier, SOE agent, writer
Dusty Miller — Executed for his faith during internment under the Japanese in Thailand in 1945.[citation needed]
François Mitterrand — French president, captured during World War II in 1940, escaped 6 times before arriving home in Dec. 1941
W. H. Murray — German POW during World War II, Scottish mountaineer
Airey Neave — British politician made the first British home run from Colditz on 5th January 1942
A. A. K. Niazi — commander of Pakistan Army in
East Pakistan who surrendered along with nearly 93,000 prisoners
Manuel Noriega — Ex-Panamanian dictator captured by U.S. troops in 1990 then jailed for drugs trafficking offences. Only detainee in held by U.S. authorities presently officially designated as a POW by the federal government.
Donald Pleasence — English film and stage actor. Was shot down while serving in the RAF during World War II, taken prisoner, and placed in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He later acted in the film "The Great Escape".
Yevgeny Rodionov — Russian soldier captured by rebel forces in
Chechnya and beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam
James N. Rowe — Colonel, U.S. Army Special Forces, held by the Viet Cong from October 1963 until December 1968. One of only thirty-four U.S. soldiers to escape captivity in Vietnam. Author of Five Years to Freedom. Assassinated by the New People's Army in the Philippines on April 21, 1989.
E W Swanton — captured by Japanese in
Singapore; after war, was renowned BBC sports commentator.
Floyd James Thompson — America's longest-held POW; he spent 9 years in POW camps in Vietnam (1964 — 1973)
Josip Broz Tito — president of
Yugoslavia, Austrian soldier in World War I, captured by Russians in 1915
András Toma – Hungarian soldier, lived in a psychiatric hospital in Russia for 55 years after being captured as a POW. He was identified and returned home in 2000.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky — Soviet military leader and theorist, captured by Germans in World War I
This is not a Wikipedia article: This is a
workpage, a collection of material and work in progress that may or may not be incorporated into [[
List of prisoners of war]]. It should not necessarily be considered factual or authoritative.
This is a list of notable
prisoners of war (POW) whose imprisonment attracted notable attention or influence, or who became famous afterwards.
Ron Arad — Israeli fighter pilot, shot down over Lebanon in 1986. He has not been seen or heard from since 1988 and is widely presumed to be dead.
Bowe Bergdahl — U.S. Army Private First Class soldier captured by the Taliban on June 30, 2009.
[1]
Tom Greenway — American actor, imprisoned for more than a year in Italian and German camps during World War II
James Hargest — Brigadier in World War II. Highly decorated New Zealand politician in World War I and World War II. Escaped from captivity into Switzerland.
Erich Hartmann — "The Blond Knight of Germany". Number one air ace of all air forces in World War II.
Bob Hoover — American World War II pilot, test pilot and airshow performer; captured in 1944 and escaped from
Stalag Luft I
Charles R. Jackson — captured in
Battle of Corregidor and notable for memoir I Am Alive: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Camp
George Millar — Journalist, British soldier, SOE agent, writer
Dusty Miller — Executed for his faith during internment under the Japanese in Thailand in 1945.[citation needed]
François Mitterrand — French president, captured during World War II in 1940, escaped 6 times before arriving home in Dec. 1941
W. H. Murray — German POW during World War II, Scottish mountaineer
Airey Neave — British politician made the first British home run from Colditz on 5th January 1942
A. A. K. Niazi — commander of Pakistan Army in
East Pakistan who surrendered along with nearly 93,000 prisoners
Manuel Noriega — Ex-Panamanian dictator captured by U.S. troops in 1990 then jailed for drugs trafficking offences. Only detainee in held by U.S. authorities presently officially designated as a POW by the federal government.
Donald Pleasence — English film and stage actor. Was shot down while serving in the RAF during World War II, taken prisoner, and placed in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He later acted in the film "The Great Escape".
Yevgeny Rodionov — Russian soldier captured by rebel forces in
Chechnya and beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam
James N. Rowe — Colonel, U.S. Army Special Forces, held by the Viet Cong from October 1963 until December 1968. One of only thirty-four U.S. soldiers to escape captivity in Vietnam. Author of Five Years to Freedom. Assassinated by the New People's Army in the Philippines on April 21, 1989.
E W Swanton — captured by Japanese in
Singapore; after war, was renowned BBC sports commentator.
Floyd James Thompson — America's longest-held POW; he spent 9 years in POW camps in Vietnam (1964 — 1973)
Josip Broz Tito — president of
Yugoslavia, Austrian soldier in World War I, captured by Russians in 1915
András Toma – Hungarian soldier, lived in a psychiatric hospital in Russia for 55 years after being captured as a POW. He was identified and returned home in 2000.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky — Soviet military leader and theorist, captured by Germans in World War I