Sentence examples for able-bodied soldiers from inspiring English sources

This number dropped significantly as able-bodied soldiers were shipped to other areas in the Philippines, Japan, Formosa, and Manchuria to work in slave labor camps.

Able-bodied soldiers were force-marched over 600 km to prison camps to the north and east, where they were intermingled with Viet Minh soldiers to discourage French bombing runs.

This virile, able-bodied soldier has been felled by the habit of killing.

As able-bodied men died, López recruited a new army of wounded and child soldiers.

Although the majority of South Korea's able-bodied male citizens may contribute to a military reserve of a few million soldiers, mobilizing them in time to respond to a conflict is another question and their role is often excluded from analyses.

According to Lincoln's secretary John Hay, the president lamented that Birney would "take a squad of soldiers into a neighborhood, & carry off into the army all the able-bodied darkies they can find without asking master or slave to consent".

In "Forever England" (1935) he was the able-bodied seaman confronting an enemy battleship, and in "Waterloo Road" (1945) he was a tormented soldier absent without leave.

Thereafter, Northern soldiers went onto those farms, announced to the slaves that they had been emancipated and actively encouraged able-bodied men to enlist in the Union Army.

About 1,050 soldiers out of the original 2,500 managed to reach Hagaru-ri, and only 385 survivors were deemed able-bodied.

Since all of the able-bodied German men were off fighting by 1944, when this movie takes place, the factories employ only women, so the Allied soldiers assigned to retrieve one of these devices have to dress as women.

I'm perfectly able-bodied.