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The camp is along High Mountain Road, which was subsequently renamed Michaux Road. As a POW camp, the area of the site was approximately 120 acres (49 ha). [3] The Pine Grove Furnace POW Interrogation Camp was a short distance from Camp Sharpe, which served as a POW labor camp during World War II. [1]
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 ...
Camp Papago Park; Camp Perry; Camp Pine (Illinois) ... Pine Camp; Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Interrogation Camp; R. ... Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp
The Pine Grove Furnace facilities were identified as "Pine Grove Iron-Works" by 1782 ("Mr. Eger's iron-works" in 1783), and in addition to water raceways and charcoal hearths (traces of which are still visible), support facilities were built near the works, e.g., the 1829 L-shaped iron master mansion (named "office" in 1872). [13]
On May 15, 1942, 218 Japanese and German detainees, including some 80 children, were covertly transported to Grove Park Inn via train. WNC History: Story behind the WWII detainee camps at Grove ...
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He died of illness on April 24, 1951, at POW Camp 5 near Pyoktong, North Korea at the age of 23. U.S. Army Sgt. Kester B. Hardman Credit: DPAA.
Pine Grove Furnace may refer to: Pine Grove Furnace (1764), in the Pine Grove Iron Works of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Pine Grove Furnace State Park, established to protect the above; Pine Grove Furnace (1805), near Uniontown, Pennsylvania; Pine-Grove Furnace (1828), in Lawrence County, Ohio; Pine Grove Bloomary Forge (1837), in Washington ...