Not only did Hispanics serve as active combatants in the European and Pacific Theatres of war, but they also served on the home front as civilians.

The number of active combatants peaked at between 10,000 and 15,000, while the total number of resistance fighters was as high as 40,000.

Cinnabar was probably better off having Kostroma as a friendly neutral than as an active combatant.

The exigent voters of New Hampshire may have decided that none of the active combatants quite fills the bill.

Several were down already, bleeding, screaming, being trampled on by the still active combatants, and the casualties were rising all the time.

The proposed U.N. force would not - and should not - interpose itself between active combatants.

Speaking of the United States troops, he said: "There is no intention for them to become active combatants.

The capture of the Harriet Lane involved also possibly the oldest active combatant of the Civil War.

By then the Americans were active combatants, providing much-needed computer power to Bletchley.

Due to poor eyesight, he was enlisted as a medical auxiliary rather than an active combatant.