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Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) 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 ...
The first German POWs were sailors from SMS Cormoran, a German merchant raider anchored in Apra Harbor, Guam, on the day that war was declared. [3] The United States Department of War designated three locations as POW camps during the war: Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and Douglas in Utah. [4]
Pages in category "World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
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Camp Shanks was the largest World War II port of embarkation. Members of the 65th were among more than 1.3 million soldiers, sailors and airmen who passed through the camp on their way to fight in ...
Oflag or Offizier-Lager ("Officer camp") – These were POW camps for officers. Stalag or Stammlager ("Base camp") – These were enlisted personnel POW camps. Stalag Luft or Luftwaffe-Stammlager ("Luftwaffe base camp") – These were POW camps administered by the German Air Force for Allied aircrews (including officers, e.g. Stalag Luft I).
Myrtle Beach, rich with modern military history, wants to make sure its World War II veterans are honored with a marker of their own at Warbird Park. Myrtle Beach, once home to 600 German POWs, to ...