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Stark, New Hampshire. ... ZIP code: 03582. Area code: 603: FIPS code: 33-73060: ... This was the only World War II POW camp located in New Hampshire.
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 ...
"In the spring of 1944 a high fence and four guard towers transformed a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp on this site into New Hampshire's sole World War II prisoner of war camp. Approximately 250 German and Austrian soldiers, most captured in North Africa and Normandy , lived in Camp Stark while working in the forest cutting pulpwood ...
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
[2] [5]: 187 Many ended up in prisoner-of-war camps. [2] [9]: 78–79 Support from Red Cross was important in improving camp conditions and supplementing often inadequate rations and other necessities for the prisoners, particularly in the camps run by the Axis. [9]: 103
The Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. [1] It coordinated the coast defenses of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the nearby Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine from 1900 to 1950, both on the Piscataqua River, beginning with the Endicott program.
Oct. 21—CONCORD — The Harris/Walz campaign in New Hampshire will pivot to veterans issues with a little over two weeks to go before this tight, national presidential race ends. Maura Sullivan ...
Fort Stark is a former military fortification in New Castle, New Hampshire, United States. Located at Jerry's Point (also called Jaffrey's Point) on the southeastern tip of New Castle Island, most of the surviving fort was developed in the early 20th century, following the Spanish–American War , although there were several earlier ...