In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas. Eventually, every state (with the exceptions of Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) and Hawaii, then a territory, had each at least a POW camp.[1]
Some of the camps were designated "segregation camps", where Nazi "true believers" were separated from the other prisoners due to retaliation killings and terror toward POWs they thought were too friendly to their American captors.[2]
After the Armistice of Cassibile, approximately 90% of Italian POWs pledged to help the United States, by volunteering in Italian Service Units (ISU). Due to a labor shortage, Italian Service Units worked on Army depots, in arsenals and hospitals, and on farms. POWs who were a part of the ISU received better housing, uniforms and pay.[3][4][5][6][7]
At its peak in May 1945, a total of 425,871 POWs were held in the US: 371,683 Germans, 50,273 Italians, and 3,915 Japanese.[8]: 272
Camp | State | City or County | Notes |
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Bainbridge Army Airfield | Georgia | Bainbridge | Originally an Army Airfield flight training facility. Also housed several hundred German POWs who worked in nearby agricultural farms. Following World War II, the facilities became the Bainbridge State Hospital residential mental health campus until its closure in the 1960s. |
Boston Port of Embarkation | Massachusetts | Boston | |
Bradley Field | Connecticut | Windsor Locks | Now Bradley International Airport |
Camp Adair | Oregon | Benton County | |
Camp Albuquerque | New Mexico | Albuquerque | |
Camp Algona | Iowa | Algona | https://www.pwcampalgona.org/ |
Camp Aliceville | Alabama | Aliceville | Opened in 1943, a segregation camp from 1944.[2] |
Camp Allegan | Michigan | Allegan County | Originally CCC Camp Lakewood built in 1936 |
Camp Allen | Virginia | Norfolk | |
Camp Alva | Oklahoma | Alva | One of the first segregation camps.[2] |
Fort Andrews | Massachusetts | Boston Harbor | |
Camp Angel Island | California | San Francisco | |
Camp Antigo | Wisconsin | Antigo | |
Camp Appleton | Wisconsin | Appleton | |
Camp Ashby | Virginia | Princess Anne County | |
Camp Ashford | West Virginia | White Sulphur Springs | |
Camp Atlanta | Nebraska | Atlanta | |
Camp Atterbury | Indiana | Edinburgh | Housed 3,500 Italians and later 10,000 Germans |
Camp AuTrain | Michigan | AuTrain | |
Camp Barkeley | Texas | Abilene | Located near what is now Dyess Air Force Base.[8]: 130 |
Camp Barron | Wisconsin | Barron County | |
Camp Bassett | Arkansas | Bassett | |
Camp Bastrop | Louisiana | Bastrop | Branch Camp of Camp Ruston. Kurt Richard Westphal escaped in August 1945 and was recaptured in Hamburg, West Germany in 1954. |
Camp Bayfield | Wisconsin | Bayfield | Formerly the county courthouse, is now the headquarters of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. |
Camp Beale | California | Yuba County | |
Camp Beaver Dam | Wisconsin | Beaver Dam | |
Camp Belle Mead | New Jersey | Belle Mead | Housed primarily Italian POWs. Once Italy surrendered, the Italian POWs were permitted to volunteer for the "Italian Service Unit." This unit provided the POWs with an opportunity to work and earn a wage, as well as preferential treatment.[9] |
Camp Billy Mitchell | Wisconsin | Milwaukee | Over 3,000 German POWs were interned at Billy Mitchell Field airport (known today as Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE)) from January 1945 to April 1946. |
Camp Blanding | Florida | Clay County | Upwards of 200 German Prisoner of War were moved to Venice Army Air Field in February 1945 from Camp Blanding. Seven German soldiers who had been reinterred at Camp Blanding, were reinterred on 25 April 1946, at the Fort Benning National Cemetery near Columbus, Ga when the federal government returned Camp Blanding to the Florida National Guard.[10] |
Camp Bowie | Texas | Brown County | See: "News from the Bowie Camp 1943," a written account from Joseph Lehman to a friend. |
Camp Brady | Texas | ||
Camp Breckinridge | Kentucky | ||
Camp Briner | North Carolina | Butner | |
Camp Bullis | Texas | San Antonio | |
Camp Butner | North Carolina | Butner | Kurt Rossmeisl escaped on 4 August 1945 and surrendered in 1959. |
Camp Cambria | Wisconsin | Cambria | |
Camp Campbell | Kentucky | One of first camps (3) designated for de-Nazification: Fort Devens, Massachusetts and Camp McCain, Mississippi.[8] | |
Camp Carson | Colorado | El Paso County | |
Camp Chaffee | Arkansas | Sebastian County | |
Camp Chase | Ohio | ||
Camp Chickasha | Oklahoma | Grady County | |
Camp Chilton | Wisconsin | Chilton | 300 POWs from Camp McCoy arrived at the Calumet County Fairgrounds in June 1945. They worked at 8 local canneries until moving to other parts of Wisconsin in August 1945.[11] |
Camp Claiborne | Louisiana | Forest Hill | Branch Camp of Camp Ruston. |
Camp Clarinda | Iowa | ||
Camp Clark, Missouri | Missouri | Nevada | |
Camp Cleburne | Texas | Johnson County | Located where the present day Cleburne Conference center is located in the 1500 block of West Henderson(business HWY 67) |
Camp Clinton | Mississippi | Clinton | Housed German POWs from the Afrika Korps after their defeat in North Africa |
Camp Cobb | Wisconsin | Cobb | |
Camp Columbus | Wisconsin | Columbus | |
Camp Como | Mississippi | Panola County | |
Camp Concordia | Kansas | Concordia | |
Camp Cooke | California | Santa Barbara County | |
Camp Croft | South Carolina | ||
Camp Crossville | Tennessee | ||
Camp Crowder | Missouri | ||
Camp Dawson | West Virginia | ||
Camp Deming | New Mexico | Georg Gärtner escaped on 21 September 1945, and finally surrendered in 1985. He was the last escapee, having remained at large for 40 years. | |
Camp Dermott | Arkansas | Dermott, Arkansas | |
Camp Douglas | Wyoming | Douglas | |
Camp Dundee | Michigan | Two escaped. Used a railroad box car. Recaptured: Roanoke, Va.[12] | |
Camp Eau Claire | Wisconsin | Altoona | |
Camp Edwards | Massachusetts | Falmouth | |
Camp Ellis | Illinois | Fulton County | |
Camp Eunice | Louisiana | ||
Camp Evelyn | Michigan | Alger County | |
Camp Faribault | Minnesota | ||
Camp Fannin | Texas | Tyler | Located on the campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. |
Camp Flint | California | Placer County | |
Camp Florence | Arizona | Florence | Largest all-new prisoner of war compound ever constructed on American soil.[13] |
Camp Fond du Lac | Wisconsin | Fond du Lac | 300 German POWs were interned at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds from June to August 1944 while they harvested peas on local farms and worked in canneries. |
Camp Forrest | Tennessee | Tullahoma | First attempted escape in US of German POWs (2) on 5 November 1942. |
Camp Fox Lake | Wisconsin | Fox Lake | |
Camp Fredonia | Wisconsin | Fredonia | 330 German POWs lived in a tent city surrounding the Louis Glunz dance hall and worked on farms and in area canneries during the 1945 harvest. |
Camp Freeland | Michigan | Freeland | The current site of the MBS International Airport |
Camp Galesville | Wisconsin | Galesville | |
Camp Gene Autry | Oklahoma | Ardmore Army Air Field | |
Camp Genesee | Wisconsin | Genesee | |
Camp Germfask | Michigan | Germfask | |
Camp Grant | Illinois | Rockford | |
Camp Grant | Michigan | Grant | Formerly located on the south-east corner of East 120th St. and South Walnut Ave. 2.5 miles east of Grant. Prisoners worked on local farms. |
Camp Greeley | Colorado | Greeley | |
Camp Green Lake | Wisconsin | Green Lake | |
Camp Gruber | Oklahoma | Muskogee | |
Camp Gueydan | Louisiana | ||
Camp Haan | California | Riverside County | |
Camp Hale | Colorado | Pando-Leadville | [14] |
Camp Hartford | Wisconsin | Hartford | 600 German POWs were interned in the Schwartz Ballroom from October 1944 to January 1946. They were contracted to work on farms and in canneries, mills, and tanneries. |
Camp Hearne | Texas | Hearne | [15] |
Camp Hereford | Texas | Deaf Smith County | Only for Italians[16] |
Camp Hobart | Oklahoma | ||
Camp Hoffman | Maryland | Close to Fort Lincoln and held over 5,000 soldiers | |
Camp Hood | Texas | ||
Camp Horseshoe Ranch | Oklahoma | Hickory | |
Camp Hortonville | Wisconsin | Hortonville | Held German POWs. All buildings have since been demolished, the only structure left standing is the base of one stone pillar where stood the main gate of the camp. |
Camp Houlton | Maine | ||
Camp Howze | Texas | Cooke County | [17] |
Camp Hulen | Texas | Palacios | |
Camp Huntsdale | Pennsylvania | ||
Camp Huntsville | Texas | One of the first segregation camps.[2] | |
Camp Indianola | Nebraska | ||
Camp Janesville | Wisconsin | Janesville | |
Camp Jefferson | Wisconsin | Jefferson | |
Camp Jerome | Arkansas | Jerome | |
Camp Kaplan | Louisiana | ||
Camp Kaufman[8]: 245, 262 | Texas | Kaufman | |
Camp Keesus | Wisconsin | Merton | |
Camp Las Cruces | New Mexico | Las Cruces | Werner Paul Lueck escaped in November 1945 and was recaptured in Mexico City in 1954. |
Camp Lawrenceburg | Tennessee | Lawrenceburg | Sub Camp of Camp Forrest - April 1944 to March 1946 - 331 German Prisoners. |
Camp Lee | Virginia | ||
Camp Livingston | Louisiana | ||
Camp Lockett | California | Campo | Auxiliary of Camp Haan in Riverside County, home to last Civil War cavalry unit, Buffalo Soldiers. POW camp for Italians and Germans |
Camp Lodi | Wisconsin | Lodi | |
Camp Lordsburg | New Mexico | Lordsburg | 1942-1945: held Japanese-American internees, and then German and Italian POWs. |
Camp Mackall | North Carolina | Hoffman | |
Camp Marion | Ohio | Marion | http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=29115 |
Camp Markesan | Wisconsin | Markesan | |
Camp Marshfield | Wisconsin | Marshfield | |
Camp McAlester | Oklahoma | McAlester and Piteburg | http://worldandmilitarynotes.com/pow/camp-mcalester-ok-usa-pow-camp/ |
Camp McCain | Mississippi | Grenada County | One of first camps (3) designated for de-Nazification: Camp Campbell and Fort Devens, Massachusetts.[8] |
Camp McCoy | Wisconsin | Monroe | Japanese and German POWs; Japanese, Italian, and German internees; now Fort McCoy |
Camp McKay | Massachusetts | Constructed for prisoners, later reused for housing after the war | |
Camp McLean | Texas | ||
Camp Mackan | North Carolina | ||
Camp Maxey | Texas | [18] | |
Camp Mexia | Texas | ||
Camp Milltown | Wisconsin | Milltown | |
Camp Myles Standish | Massachusetts | Taunton | |
Camp Monticello | Arkansas | Monticello | |
Camp Montgomery | Minnesota | ||
Camp Natural Bridge | New York | West Point | German camp |
Camp New Cumberland | Pennsylvania | ||
Camp New Ulm | Minnesota | New Ulm | Fortuitously located outside a city where many locals still spoke German. The camp buildings are preserved in Flandrau State Park and are available for rent as a group center.[19] |
Camp Oakfield | Wisconsin | Oakfield | |
Camp Ogden | Utah | ||
Camp Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | Oklahoma City | On site of Will Rogers World Airport. |
Camp Ono | California | San Bernardino | Italian camp |
Camp Opelika | Alabama | Lee County | |
Camp Owosso | Michigan | Shlawassee County | |
Camp Owatonna | Minnesota | ||
Camp Patrick Henry | Virginia | Newport News | |
Camp Papago Park | Arizona | Germany's "Great Escape" was from a 200 feet (61 m) tunnel by 25 prisoners on 24 December 1944. | |
Camp Pauls Valley | Oklahoma | ||
Camp Peary | Virginia | ||
Camp Perry | Ohio | Now home to the CMP Headquarters and Gary Anderson competition center | |
Camp Philips | Kansas | ||
Camp Pickett | Virginia | Nottoway County | [citation needed] |
Camp Pima | Arizona | One of the first segregation camps.[2] | |
Camp Michaux | Pennsylvania | Cumberland County | Located near Pine Grove Furnace State Park. Same commander as Gettysburg Battlefield camp. |[citation needed] |
Camp Plymouth | Wisconsin | Plymouth | |
Camp Polk | Louisiana | ||
Camp Pomona | California | ||
Camp Popolopen | New York | [citation needed] | |
Camp Pori | Michigan | Upper Peninsula | [citation needed] |
Camp Pryor | Oklahoma | [citation needed] | |
Camp Raco | Michigan | Sault Ste. Marie | |
Camp Reedsburg | Wisconsin | Reedsburg | |
Camp Reynolds | Pennsylvania | ||
Camp Rhinelander | Wisconsin | Oneida County | |
Camp Ritchie | Maryland | Cascade | German and Italian POW camp during 1942–1945 housing mostly Afrika Korps officers and Italians enlisted from the Torch Campaign. Camp Ritchie also served as a U.S. Army Training Camp from WWII until it was closed under BRAC during the 1990s to the early 2000s. Almost all of the WWII Camp structures have since been demolished. Also the site of training for "The Ritchie Boys", European refugees that were trained there to return and sabotage Germany's war effort.[citation needed] |
Camp Ripon | Wisconsin | Ripon | |
Camp Jos. T. Robinson | Arkansas | Pulaski County | |
Camp Rockfield | Wisconsin | Germantown | 500 German POWs were housed in a warehouse and tent city next to the Rockfield Canning Co. plant, where many of them worked as pea packers. Other POWs were transported to work on farms and canneries in neighboring communities. |
Camp Roswell | New Mexico | Located 14 miles (23 km) SE of Roswell. 1942-1946: German POWs. | |
Camp Rucker | Alabama | Dale County | |
Camp Rupert | Idaho | Paul | |
Camp Ruston | Louisiana | Ruston, Louisiana | Area camp with 9 branch camps. Capacity for 4,800 POWs at main camp. 3 POW compounds (2 Enlisted and 1 Officer), Hospital Compound, American Compound. Housed diverse groups of POWs: Afrika Korps, Italian, Yugoslavian, Chechen, Russian conscripts and others. Later known as a de-Nazification camp where many intellectuals, artist, writers were among the POWs. The U-505 crew was kept incommunicado in NE compound. Only known escapee who avoided recapture and returned to Germany via Mexico. Extensive archive collection of photographs, interviews, art, stone castle, and other memorabilia housed in LA Tech archives provided by Camp Ruston Foundation. |
Camp San Luis Obispo | California | San Luis Obispo | Held Italian POWs |
Camp Salina | Utah | Salina, Utah | This camp had a guard fire on and kill several German prisoners. See Utah prisoner of war massacre |
Camp Santa Fe | New Mexico | Santa Fe | |
Camp Thomas A. Scott | Indiana | Fort Wayne | Camp Scott held more than 600 German POWs from the Afrika Korps from late 1944 until the camp closed in November 1945.[20][21] |
Camp Scottsbluff | Nebraska | ||
Camp Shanks | New York | Orangetown | Housed 1,200 Italian and 800 German POWs between April 1945 and January 1946. First Germans arrived in June 1945. 290,000 POWs passed through while being processed to repatriate to their original countries. Last German POW left on 22 July 1946. Camp closed immediately after. |
camp in McMillan Woods | Pennsylvania | Gettysburg Battlefield | Same commander as Camp Michaux camp. |
Camp Sheboygan | Wisconsin | Winooski | From July to December 1945, 450 German POWs were housed in the Sheboygan County Asylum, which was built in 1878 and abandoned in 1940 when a new facility was completed. |
Camp Shelby | Mississippi | Hattiesburg | |
Camp Sibert | Alabama | Etowah County | 10 members of Hitler's SS troops were held at the camp. |
Camp Sidnaw | Michigan | Sidnaw | |
Camp Skokie Valley | Illinois | Glenview | |
Camp Somerset | Maryland | ||
Camp Stark | New Hampshire | Coos County | New Hampshire's only POW camp. Sited on the abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp about 1.6 miles east of the Stark Covered Bridge in Stark, Coos County. [22] |
Camp Stewart | Georgia | ||
Camp Stockton | California | Camp Storm Lake
Iowa | |
Fort Strong | Massachusetts | Boston | |
Stringtown POW Camp | Oklahoma | Atoka | |
Camp Sturgeon Bay | Wisconsin | Door County | 2,000 German POWs were housed at seven locations on the Door Peninsula, where they worked in the local cherry orchards. |
Camp Sturtevant | Wisconsin | Sturtevant | |
Camp Sutton | North Carolina | ||
Camp Swift | Texas | Bastrop | |
Camp Thomasville | Georgia | Thomasville | Large German POW camp 2 miles outside of Thomasville. Following World War II, the facilities were taken over by the Veterans Administration with both a hospital and large domiciliary complement. Facilities now serve as an adjunct to the state's mental health program. |
Camp Thornton | Illinois | Thornton | |
Camp Tipton | Oklahoma | ||
Camp Tishomingo | Oklahoma | ||
Camp Tonkawa | Oklahoma | Housed 3,000 mostly Germans, taken in North Africa. Site of murder of Johannes Kunze by five fellow German POWs, who were subsequently tried, found guilty, hanged, and interred in the Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery. | |
Camp Tooele | Utah | POW Camp, Co. 1, Tooele (original postage) | |
Camp Trinidad | Colorado | Las Animas County | A 150 feet (46 m) electrically lighted escape tunnel was discovered by authorities. This was probably a coal mining tunnel as Engleville was a coal mining camp where this POW camp is purported to be located. Coal mining was prominent in the late 1870s to the 1950s. A few continued into the early 1970s in Las Animas County where Trinidad is located. |
Camp Tyson POW Camp | Tennessee | Paris | |
Camp Upton | New York | Suffolk County | Approximately 1,000 Japanese Americans were kept there, under tight security, behind multiple layers of barbed wire fence. Camp Upton was also used to hold Japanese citizens who were in New York City at the time war broke out, including businessman with whom the governments of Japan and the United States negotiated an exchange. |
Camp Van Dorn | Mississippi | Wilkinson County | Originally WWII Army infantry training camp. |
Camp Wallace | Texas | Galveston County | |
Camp Warner | Oregon | ||
Camp Washington | Illinois | Washington | Reinhold Pabel escaped on 9 September 1945 and was recaptured in Chicago in March 1953 |
Camp Waterloo | Michigan | Heinz Eschweiler, a 27-year-old German POW, escaped and gave himself up 3 miles north of camp. Capt. Bruce Beiber, commandant at Waterloo, said the prisoner surrendered to Ernest Riemenschneider, who turned him over to state police. The camp housed German POWs in 1944 and 1945.[23] | |
Camp Waterloo | Wisconsin | Waterloo | |
Camp Waupun | Wisconsin | Waupun | |
Camp Waynoka | Oklahoma | ||
Camp Weeping Water | Nebraska | ||
Camp Wells | Minnesota | ||
Camp Weingarten | Missouri | Located between Farmington and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri | |
Camp Wharton | Texas | Wharton | |
Camp Wheeler | Georgia | ||
Camp White | Oregon | ||
Camp White Rock | Texas | Dallas | A former CCC camp, it was used for POWs who were with Afrika Korps. After the war it became a men's dormitory for Southern Methodist University for the influx of students after the war and now is a Dallas park called Winfrey Point by White Rock Lake. |
Camp Whitewater | Minnesota | St. Charles, Minnesota | |
Camp Wisconsin Rapids | Wisconsin | Wisconsin Rapids | 200 German POWs were interned at the Tri-City Airport (now known as South Wood County Airport) from July to November 1945. |
Camp Wolters | Texas | ||
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station | Texas | Corpus Christi | |
Cushing General Hospital | Massachusetts | ||
Drew Field | Florida | Now Tampa International Airport and Drew Park. | |
Edgewood Arsenal | Maryland | ||
Eglin Army Air Field | Florida | ||
Farragut Naval Training Station | Idaho | Located on Lake Pend Oreille in Bayview for the duration of World War II | The installation housed around 900 Germans, who worked as gardeners and maintenance men around the base and surrounding community.[24] Additionally, Bayview is an unincorporated community; therefore, Farragut Naval Training Station was officially located in Kootenai County. |
Fort Andrews | Massachusetts | For Italian prisoners | |
Fort Benjamin Harrison | Indiana | ||
Fort Benning | Georgia | ||
Fort Bliss | Texas | ||
Fort Bragg | North Carolina | ||
Fort Campbell | Kentucky | ||
Fort Crockett | Texas | Galveston | |
Fort Curtis | Virginia | ||
Fort Custer | Michigan | In Section B of Fort Custer National Cemetery, there are 26 German graves. Sixteen of the men were killed or died as a result of an accident on 31 October 1945. | |
Fort Devens | Massachusetts | Devens | One of first camps (3) designated for de-Nazification: Camp Campbell and Camp McCain, Mississippi.[8] |
Fort Dix | New Jersey | Harry Girth escaped in June 1946 and surrendered to authorities in New York City in 1953. | |
Fort DuPont | Delaware | ||
Fort Eustis | Virginia | ||
Fort Getty | Rhode Island | ||
Fort Gordon | Georgia | ||
Fort Greble | Rhode Island | ||
Fort Jackson | South Carolina | Columbia 34°02'53"N 80°57'10"W | All buildings but one have been demolished. The location of the former POW camp is now a residential tract. |
Fort Kearny | Rhode Island | Had a de-Nazification program per German based newspaper, Der Ruf (The Call) | |
Fort Knox | Kentucky | ||
Fort Lawton | Washington | A riot by Negro soldiers concerned preferential treatment of Italian and German POWs. One Italian POW was lynched, and Leon Jaworski was the military prosecutor.
The Italian, and one German POW who committed suicide rather than be repatriated, are interred just outside the post cemetery boundaries. | |
Fort Leavenworth | Kansas | ||
Fort Leonard Wood | Missouri | ||
Fort Lewis | Washington | Located between Olympia and Tacoma, Washington.
www.fortlewispowcamp.com | |
Fort McClellan | Alabama | Calhoun County | |
Fort Meade | Maryland | Fort Meade housed about 4,000 German and Italian World War II POWs. Thirty-three German POWs and two Italian POWs are now interred in the post cemetery. German submariner Werner Henke is the most notable, he shot at Fort Hunt, Virginia attempting to escape from a secret interrogation. | |
Fort Missoula | Montana | Missoula | 1941-1944: Italian POWs. |
Fort Niagara | New York | Niagara County | Fort Niagara and Pine Camp (now Fort Drum) maintained several sub or branch camps, including one Geneseo.[25] |
Fort Oglethorpe | Georgia | Fort Oglethorpe | |
Fort Omaha | Nebraska | Omaha | |
Fort Ord | California | A 120 feet (37 m) nearly completed escape tunnel was discovered by authorities.[26] | |
Fort Patrick Henry | Virginia | ||
Fort Reno | Oklahoma | ||
Fort Riley | Kansas | ||
Fort Robinson | Nebraska | ||
Fort Rucker | Alabama | Dale County | |
Fort D.A. Russell | Texas | Marfa | Building 98 |
Fort Sam Houston | Texas | San Antonio | |
Fort Saulsbury | Delaware | ||
Fort Sheridan | Illinois | Lake County | Sub camps: Camp Pine, Camp Thornton and Camp Skokie Valley, each with 200 POWs. |
Fort Sill | Oklahoma | Lawton | |
Fort Sumner | New Mexico | ||
Fort F.E. Warren | Wyoming | ||
Glennan General Hospital | Oklahoma | Okmulgee | Now the site of Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology |
Grider Field | Arkansas | Pine Bluff | |
Halloran General Hospital | New York | ||
Hammond Northshore Regional Airport | Louisiana | ||
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation | Virginia | ||
Hillcrest Farm | Mississippi | Carriere | [27] |
Honouliuli Internment Camp | Hawaii | also housed POWs from the Pacific | |
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation | Pennsylvania | Indiantown Gap | |
Holabird Signal Depot | Maryland | ||
Jefferson Barracks | Missouri | St. Louis | |
Jersey City Quartermaster Supply Depot | New Jersey | Caven Point, Jersey City | [28] |
Lovell General Hospital | Massachusetts | ||
McCloskey General Hospital | Texas | Temple | |
Memphis General Depot | Tennessee | ||
Naval Air Station Whiting Field | Florida | Milton | |
New Orleans Port of Embarkation | Louisiana | ||
Newton D. Baker Hospital | West Virginia | Martinsburg | |
Olmstead Field | Pennsylvania | ||
Patterson Field | Ohio | ||
Pine Camp | New York | Jefferson County | Present Day Fort Drum |
Port Johnson | New Jersey | [29] | |
Pine Bluff Arsenal | Arkansas | Pine Bluff | |
Richmond ASF Depot | Virginia | ||
Rocky Mountain Arsenal | Colorado | Rose Hill | |
Thibodaux, Louisiana | Louisiana | Thibodaux | Housed German POWs from the Afrika Korps after defeat in North Africa. Camp was located in North Thibodaux along Coulon Road. |
Tobyhanna Military Reservation | Pennsylvania | Tobyhanna | |
Valley Forge General Hospital | Pennsylvania | Valley Forge | |
Waltham Memorial Hospital | Massachusetts | Waltham | |
Westover Field | Massachusetts | Westover | |
Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp | Indiana | Windfall | |
Rome | New York | Rome | |
Utica | New York | Utica | |
Boonville | New York | Boonville | https://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/573/Port-Allen-Prisoner-of-War-Sub-Camp-No-7 |
Camp Gordon Johnston | Florida | Carrabelle | Most of the POWs sent to Florida were assigned to two large camps: Camp Gordon Johnston and Camp Blanding. Twenty-five smaller camps were scattered throughout the state.[30] |
Camp Leesburg | Florida | Leesburg | |
Company 7[31] | Florida | Dade City | |
MacDill Air Force Base | Florida | Tampa | |
Liberty Point | Florida | Clewiston | Described by an International Red Cross inspector in March 1945 as the “...worst in all America.”[32] |
Winter Haven | Florida |
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- ^ Jack Hamann, "On American Soil: Camp Florence, Arizona." Archived 25 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ "Account from the Hereford Camp" for more see reference therein.
- ^ Camp Howze 1944 1945 " from a long term resident at the camp written to his girlfriend"
- ^ "August 1943 description of the Camp Maxey" Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Letters from Camp Maxey
- ^ Buck, Anita Albrecht (1998). Behind Barbed Wire: German Prisoners of War in Minnesota During World War II. St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc. ISBN 0-87839-113-4.
- ^ "World War II Camp Had Impact on City" by Michael Hawfield, The News-Sentinel 15 December 1990 Archived 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ "Roadside History: Camp Stark, NH's WWII German POW camp, housed about 250 soldiers". 25 September 2016. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022.
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