That somehow he survived imprisonment, even attempted murder, just a day or so before the foray ship came down to land?

All eighteen survived imprisonment as prisoners of war.

Non of the other resistance fighters survived Japanese imprisonment.

He survived imprisonment as a child in the Majdanek concentration camp and became the first in his farming family to attend college.

One of the prisoners, Warlock, did not survive subsequent imprisonment.

She managed to survive imprisonment in a German POW camp.

He survived imprisonment in several concentration camps during World War II.

This journalist survived shipwreck and imprisonment to become a priest.

He narrowly escaped execution and survived imprisonment.