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Camp Clinton was a World War II prisoner of war facility located in Clinton, Mississippi, just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road. Camp Clinton was home to 3,000 German and Italian POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps .
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 ...
Paul B. Johnson State Park is a public recreation area on the shores of Geiger Lake, located off U.S. Highway 49 in McLaurin, Mississippi, 12 miles (19 km) south of Hattiesburg. The state park is named after Paul B. Johnson , the forty-sixth governor of Mississippi .
During World War II, Camp Clinton was established as a German POW camp south of town; it housed about 3,000 German soldiers. Most of the prisoners were from the Afrika Korps . Of the 40 German generals captured in the war, Camp Clinton housed 35 of them.
Grand Gulf Military State Park is a Mississippi state park located 10 miles northwest of Port Gibson in an unincorporated area, now the ghost town of Grand Gulf, in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The park includes the remnants of two batteries that fired on and repelled Ulysses S. Grant 's forces during the Battle of Grand Gulf .
Camp Van Dorn is a former military installation in Centreville, Mississippi, in both Wilkinson and Amite counties. [1] Established in 1942 during World War II, the base was named for Confederate General Earl Van Dorn from Mississippi. Holding up to 30,000 troops for training, it operated until 1946, after which it was declared surplus to ...
Camp Ford was a POW camp near Tyler, Texas, during the American Civil War. [1] It was the largest Confederate -run prison west of the Mississippi . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
"Map of the Vicinity of Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi" created by the U.S. government circa 1874, showing the location of the national cemetery (NAID 26465540) The 116.28-acre (0.4706 km 2) Vicksburg National Cemetery, is within the park. It has 18,244 interments (12,954 unidentified).