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Encyclopedia > List of POW camps in the United States

Prisoner of War Camps in the United States During WWII


Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article. A Prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of persons captured by the enemy in time of war. ...


In the United States, at the end of WWII there were 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war. The camps were located all over the US but were mostly in the South because of the expense of heating the barracks. Eventually, every state with the exception of Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont had POW camps.


A (nearly) complete list of all camps can be found at http://home.arcor.de/kriegsgefangene/usa/camps_usa/standort.html

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Camp myles standish massachusetts More information pertaining to these camps may be found at Wikipedia article POW. Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ...

Camp Location
Camp Albuquerque New Mexico
Camp Algoma Idaho
Camp Algona Iowa
Camp Aliceville Alabama
Camp Allen Norfolk, Virginia
Camp Alva Oklahoma
Camp Angel Island California
Camp Ashby Virginia
Camp Ashford West Virginia
Camp Atlanta Nebraska
Camp Atterbury (3,500 Italians. Later 10,000 Germans)(www.IndianaMilitary.org) Indiana
Camp AuTrain Michigan, AuTrain
Camp Barkeley Texas
Camp Bastrop
  • Kurt Richard Westphal escaped in August 1945, and was recaptured in Hamburg, Germany in 1954.
 Texas
Camp Beale California
Camp Blanding Florida
Camp Bowie Texas
Camp Brady Texas
Camp Breckinridge Kentucky
Camp Briner North Carolina
Camp Bullis San Antonio, Texas
Camp Butner
  • Kurt Rossmeisl escaped on 4 August 1945, and surrendered in 1959.
 North Carolina
Camp Campbell Kentucky
Camp Carson Colorado
Camp Chaffee Sebastion County, Arkansas
Camp Chickasha Grady County, Oklahoma
Camp Claiborne Lousisiana
Camp Clarinda Iowa
Camp Clark Missouri
Camp Clinton Mississippi
Camp Como Mississippi
Camp Concordia Kansas
Camp Cooke California
Camp Croft South Carolina
Camp Crossville Tennessee
Camp Crowder Missouri
Camp David Maryland
Camp Deming
  • Georg Gärtner escaped on 21 September 1945, and finally surrendered in 1985. He was the last, and had remained at large for 40 years.
 New Mexico
Camp Dermott Arkansas
Camp Douglas Wyoming
Camp Edwards Massachusetts
Camp Ellis Illinois
Camp Evelyn Alger County, Michigan
Camp Fannin Tyler, Texas
Camp Florence
  • Largest all-new prisoner of war compound ever constructed on American soil [1]it is now used as United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
 Florence, Arizona
Camp Forrest
  • First attempted escape by two German POWs on 5 November 1942.
 Tullahoma, Tennessee
Camp Gene Autry Ardmore Army Air Field, Oklahoma
Camp Germfask Germfask, Michigan
Camp Greeley [2] Greeley, Colorado
Camp Gruber near Muskogee, Oklahoma
Camp Hearne Hearne, Texas
Camp Hereford Deaf Smith County,Texas (only for Italians)
Camp Hobart Oklahoma
Camp Hoffman (close to Fort Lincoln and Held over 5,000 confederate soldiers) Maryland
Camp Hood Texas
Camp Horseshoe Ranch Hickory, Oklahoma
Camp Houlton Maine
Camp Howze Texas
Camp Hulen Palacios,Texas
Camp Huntsdale Pennsylvania
Camp Huntsville Texas
Camp Indianola Nebraska
Camp Jerome Arkansas
Camp Las Cruces
  • Werner Paul Lueck escaped in November 1945, and was recaptured in Mexico City in 1954.
 Las Cruces, New Mexico
Camp Lee Virginia
Camp Livingston Louisiana
Camp Lordsburg
  • 1942-1945: held Japanese American internees, and then German/Italian POWs.
 Lordsburg, New Mexico
Camp Mackall Hoffman, North Carolina
Camp McAlester Oklahoma
Camp McCain Mississippi
Camp McCoy Wisconsin
Camp McLean Texas
Camp Mackan North Carolina
Camp Maxey Texas
Camp Mexia Texas
Camp Monticello Arkansas
Camp New Cumbrland Pennsylvania
Camp Ogden Utah
Camp Oklahoma City On site of Will Rogers World Airport.
Camp Opelika Alabama
Camp Owosso Michigan, Shiawassee County
Camp Papago Park
  • Germany's 'Great Escape' was from a 200 foot tunnel by 25 prisoners on 24 December 1944.
 Arizona
Camp Pauls Valley Oklahoma
Camp Peary Virginia
Camp Perry Ohio
Camp Philips Kansas
Camp Pickett Virginia
Camp Pima Arizona
Camp Pine Grove Furnace / Camp Michaux Gettysburg, PA
Camp Polk Louisiana
Camp Pomona California
Camp Popolopen New York
Camp Pori Michigan, Upper Peninsula
Camp Pryor Oklahoma
Camp Raco Michigan, near Sault Ste. Marie
Camp Reynolds Pennsyslvania
Camp Jos. T. Robinson Arkansas
Camp Roswell
  • 1942-1946: German POWs.
 Roswell, New Mexico (14 miles SE of town)
Camp Rucker Alabama
Camp Rupert Idaho
Camp Ruston Louisiana
Camp Santa Fe New Mexico
Camp Scottsbluff Nebraska
Camp Shanks New York: Point of embarkation
Camp Sharpe Gettysburg, PA
Camp Shelby Mississippi
Camp Sibert Alabama
Camp Sidnaw Sidnaw, Michigan
Camp Somerset Maryland
Camp Stark New Hampshire
Camp Stewart Georgia
Camp Stockton California
Stringtown POW Camp Atoka, Oklahoma
Camp Sutton North Carolina
Camp Swift Bastrop, Texas
Camp Tipton Oklahoma
Camp Tishomingo Oklahoma
Camp Tonkawa
  • Site of murder of Johannes Kunze by five fellow German POWs, who were subsequently tried, found guilty and hanged.
 Oklahoma
Camp Tooele / POW Camp, Co.1, Tooele (original postage) Utah
Camp Trinidad
  • A 150-foot electrically-lighted tunnel was discovered by authorities.
 Colorado
Camp Van Dorn Mississippi
Camp Wallace Galveston County,Texas
Camp Warner Utah
Camp Washington
  • Reinhold Pabel escaped on 9 September 1945, and was recaptured in Chicago in March 1953
 Washington (near Peoria), Illinois
Camp Waynoka Oklahoma
Camp Wheeler Georgia
Camp White Oregon
Camp Wolters Texas
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas
Edgewood Arsenal Matyland
Elgin Army Air Field Florida
Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana
Fort Benning Georgia
Fort Bliss Texas
Fort Bragg North Carolina
Fort Campbell Kentucky
Fort Crockett Galveston, Texas
Fort Curtis Virginia
Fort Custer Michigan
Fort Devens Massachusetts
Fort Dix
  • Harry Girth escaped in June 1946, and surrendered to authorities in New York City in 1953.
 New Jersey
Fort Drum New York
Fort DuPont Delaware
Fort Eustis Virginia
Fort Gordon Georgia
Fort Jackson South Carolina
Fort Kearny Rhode Island
Fort Knox Kentucky
Fort Leavenworth Kansas
Fort Leonard Wood Missouri
Fort Lewis Between Olympia and Tacoma, WA
Fort McClellan Alabama
Fort Meade Maryland
Fort Niagara New York
Fort Oglethorpe Georgia
Fort Omaha North Omaha, Nebraska
Fort Ord
  • A 120-foot nearly completed tunnel was discovered by authorities.[citation needed]
 California
Fort Patrick Henry Virginia
Fort Reno Oklahoma
Fort Riley Kansas
Fort Robinson Nebraska
Fort D. A. Russell Texas
Fort Sam Houston Texas
Fort Sheridan Illinois
Fort Sill Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sumner New Mexico
Fort F.E. Warren Wyoming
Glennan General Hospital Oklahoma
Halloran General Hospital New York
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation Virginia
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Pennsyslvania
Holabird Signal Depot Maryland
McCloskey General Hospital Texas
Memphis General Depot Tennessee
New Orleans Port of Embarkation Louisiana
Olmstead Field Pennsyslvania
Pine Bluff Arsenal Arkansas
Richmond ASF Depot Virginia
Tobyhanna Military Reservation Pennsyslvania
Westover Fields Massachusetts

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THE LOCATION OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA (5236 words)
These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.
Sign states area is restricted; as of 1997 there were barbed wire fences pointing inward, a row of stadium lights pointed toward an empty field, etc. Black boxes on poles may have been cameras.
Camp was accidentally discovered by a man and his son who were rabbit hunting; they were discovered and apprehended.
America's Greatest Generation: Army Heroes: the Camps (6782 words)
This camp is a thing that has to be seen to be believed, and even then the charred skulls and pelvic bones in the furnaces seem too enormous a crime to be accepted fully.
The camp used to be well guarded to keep the townspeople away, but they couldn't have lived in ignorance or innocence of what was going on here.
But visiting these liberated death camps so moved him that he requested a committee of Allied and neutral journalists and statesmen to visit some of the camps in person, to see the horror with their own eves while the marks of the horror were fresh.
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