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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 .
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 ...
Road conditions As of 6 a.m. Friday, there are forty-five counties in Mississippi with ice reports, the Mississippi Department of Transportation said. The biggest danger this morning was black ice ...
A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps , and military prisons .
An unimproved state highway was established between French Camp and Winona in 1956 without a number. [8] [9] In the next year, an extension of state road was established from Weir south towards McCool. [10] By 1958, MS 407 had formally been established along the McCool-Weir and French Camp-Winona highways. [11]
Mississippi Highway 536 (MS 536) is an unsigned highway that runs from MS 15 southwest of Laurel to MS 63 southwest of Waynesboro in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Only about two miles (3.2 km) of the overall highway is paved and state maintained. The majority of the route is a dirt road that runs through De Soto National Forest.