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The Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Interrogation Camp was a secret World War II camp for interrogating German prisoners of war (POWs) located in a remote region in southern Pennsylvania, selected partly because of its proximity to Washington, DC. It operated from 1943 to 1945.
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 ...
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 .
1 Allied prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. 2 Axis prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. Toggle the table of contents. Lists of World War II prisoner-of ...
The prisoner-of-war barracks at Camp Billy Mitchell, at Milwaukee's Mitchell Field airport, as seen in March 1946. With the war over, the barracks' 275 living units were seen as an option to help ...
On May 15, 1942, 218 Japanese and German detainees, including some 80 children, were covertly transported to Grove Park Inn via train.
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .
Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps camps" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War ...