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US Prisoner of War populations [1]; Month Total POWs German Italian Japanese May 1942: 32: 31-1 June 1942: 33: 32-1 July 1942: 49: 39-10 August 1942: 65: 55-10 September 1942
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 ...
Major POW camps across the United States as of June 1944. Entrance to Camp Swift in Texas, August 1944. Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II.
During World War II, Utah held 15,000 prisoners of war. [1][2] These prisoners were predominately German and Italian, and they were spread out over 12 different camps over the course of two years. [3] Utah's terrain of mountains and desert, as well as its isolated and inland position, made it an ideal place for housing POWs. [4]
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France. 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.
Camp Algona. Coordinates: 43.0812°N 94.2701°W. Camp Algona was an American World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp located in Algona, Iowa. It was operational from 1943 until 1946 and served as a detention facility for German soldiers captured during the conflict. The camp is a significant part of Algona's history and is remembered today ...
Coordinates: 32°32′05″N 92°44′27″W. Camp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in the United States during World War II, with 4,315 prisoners at its peak in October 1943. Camp Ruston served as the "base camp" and had 8 smaller work branch camps associated to it. Camp Ruston included three large, separated compounds for ...
Americans in Soviet-occupied territories. Some 5,000 Americans fell into Soviet hands when the Red Army occupied Eastern Poland in 1939. Some 2,000 more claiming American citizenship were added when the Soviets pushed the Nazis from Poland in 1944. Of the latter ones about 600 cases were confirmed and about 100 proved to be false.