Sentence examples for fallen into enemy hands from inspiring English sources

Asked about Edward Snowden, she repeated the discredited argument that he could have invoked whistle-blower status, and said that he had stolen a lot of information that had fallen into enemy hands.

"Dudley Clarke was confident, however, that if it had fallen into enemy hands through such an obvious and 'gross breach of security' then it would probably be dismissed as a plant, pointing to Sicily as the cover target in accordance with Mincemeat," Macintyre writes.

When the war was over, he returned to the Soviet Union, but instead of being greeted as a war hero he was sent to a camp for 15 years, a fate shared by many Soviet soldiers who had fallen into enemy hands and were seen by Josef Stalin as potential traitors.

The hospital, and its wounded and medical staff, fell into enemy hands.

The military destroyed the helicopter to ensure that it did not fall into enemy hands.

The 1949 Geneva Conventions, which regulates armed conflict, prohibits degrading treatment of anyone who falls into enemy hands.

The captain of the Louisiana blew up his ship rather than see it fall into enemy hands.

On Dec. 11, 1861, a squad from Milice's company fell into enemy hands while on patrol along the Potomac River on the Maryland-Virginia border.

Its stated goal is to prevent Israeli troops from falling into enemy hands, "even at the cost of hurting or wounding our soldiers".

What would a woman soldier be forced to endure, should she fall into enemy hands, that a male counterpart might not?

And flight crews had to swear a special oath to protect the bombsight from falling into enemy hands by destroying it if necessary.