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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All POWs have been released.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After commencing retraining, the ex POWs, like most soldiers on a home posting, endeavoured to get home at weekends.
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He received about 20 letters from ex-regimental POWs who were in need; these were passed on to the regiment.
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Most of all, Nixon justified the continuation of the war by raising the issue of the POWs held by Hanoi.
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The company now admits it is likely that the facilities were partly staffed by forced labor and POWs during this period.
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We drove through that, and it was at this time that we captured 15 to 20 POWs and lots of equipment.