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In early 1944, the remains of a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the town were converted to form Camp Stark, which held about 250 German POWs. This was the only World War II POW camp located in New Hampshire. Most of the men in the camp performed hard labor in the nearby forests, supplying wood for the paper mills in Berlin, New ...
Camp Somerset: Maryland Camp Stark: New Hampshire Coos County New Hampshire's only POW camp. Sited on the abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp about 1.6 miles east of the Stark Covered Bridge in Stark, Coos County. [22] Camp Stewart: Georgia Camp Stockton: California Camp Storm Lake Iowa Fort Strong: Massachusetts Boston: Stringtown POW ...
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 ...
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
In comparison to other POW camps under German control, captives at Stalag Luft III received “excellent” treatment for the majority of the war, according to a 1944 US Military Intelligence ...
[9]: 15 15,000 Polish partisans taken into custody after the Warsaw Uprising were recognized as prisoners of war and deported to POW camps. [1]: 294 Romanian POWs held by USSR: between 100,000 to 250,000 [31] Starving, emaciated Soviet prisoners of war in front of a barrack in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria
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 ...
Rupert Davies – actor, Fleet Air Arm observer, POW in Stalag Luft III 1940-45; Charles de Gaulle – French general and political leader, captured at Verdun, POW 1916-1918; Dieter Dengler – United States Navy pilot who escaped a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos; Jeremiah Denton – awarded the Navy Cross for resistance in captivity during the ...