List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
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).

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States

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Table Section Text: 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).

Camp	State	City or County	Notes

Camp Skokie Valley	Illinois	Glenview

Newton D Baker	West Virginia	Martinsburg

Camp Belle Mead	New Jersey	Belle Mead	Housed primarily Italian POWs. Once Italy surrendered, the Italian POWs were permitted to volunteer for the "Italian Service Unit." This unit provided the POWs with an opportunity to work and earn a wage, as well as preferential treatment.

Farragut Naval Training Station	Idaho	Located on Lake Pend Oreille in Bayview for the duration of World War II	The installation housed around 900 Germans, who worked as gardeners and maintenance men around the base and surrounding community. Additionally, Bayview is an unincorporated community; therefore, Farragut Naval Training Station was officially located in Kootenai County.

Fort Dix (Known officially as "Camp Dix" until 1939, a name that carried over unofficially through World War II)	New Jersey	New Hanover Township, Pemberton Township, and Springfield Township

Jersey City Quartermaster Supply Depot	New Jersey	Caven Point, Jersey City

Boston Port of Embarkation	Massachusetts	Boston

Camp Allegan	Michigan	Allegan County

Camp Antigo	Wisconsin	Antigo

Bradley Field	Connecticut	Windsor Locks	Now Bradley International Airport

Camp Adair	Oregon	Benton County

Camp Albuquerque	New Mexico	Albuquerque

Camp Algoma	Idaho	Algoma

Camp Algona	Iowa	Algona

Camp Aliceville	Alabama	Aliceville	Opened in 1943, a segregation camp from 1944.

Camp Allen	Virginia	Norfolk

Camp Alva	Oklahoma	Alva	One of the first segregation camps.

Fort Andrews	Massachusetts	Boston Harbor

Camp Angel Island	California	San Francisco

Camp Ashby	Virginia	Princess Anne County

Camp Ashford	West Virginia	White Sulphur Springs

Camp Atlanta	Nebraska	Atlanta

Camp Atterbury	Indiana	Edinburgh	Housed 3,500 Italians and later 10,000 Germans

Camp AuTrain	Michigan	AuTrain

Camp Barkeley	Texas	Abilene	Located near what is now Dyess Air Force Base.

Camp Barron	Wisconsin	Barron County

Camp Bassett	Arkansas	Bassett

Camp Bastrop	Louisiana	Bastrop	Branch Camp of Camp RUSTON Kurt Richard Westphal escaped in August 1945 and was recaptured in Hamburg, West Germany in 1954.

Camp Bayfield	Wisconsin	Bayfield	Formerly the county courthouse, is now the headquarters of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

Camp Beale	California	Yuba County

Camp Beaver Dam	Wisconsin	Beaver Dam

Camp Billy Mitchell	Wisconsin

Camp Blanding	Florida

Camp Bowie	Texas	Brown County	See: "News from the Bowie Camp 1943," a written account from Joseph Lehman to a friend.

Camp Brady	Texas

Camp Breckinridge	Kentucky

Camp Briner	North Carolina	Butner

Camp Bullis	Texas	San Antonio

Camp Butner	North Carolina	Butner	Kurt Rossmeisl escaped on 4 August 1945 and surrendered in 1959.

Camp Cambria	Wisconsin

Camp Campbell	Kentucky	One of the first three designated camps for anti-Nazis, along with Fort Devens, Massachusetts and Camp McCain.

Camp Carson	Colorado	El Paso County

Camp Chaffee	Arkansas	Sebastian County

Camp Chase	Ohio

Camp Chickasha	Oklahoma	Grady County

Camp Chilton	Wisconsin

Camp Claiborne	Louisiana Branch Camp of CAMP RUSTONForest Hill

Camp Clarinda	Iowa

Camp Clark	Missouri	See: "Camp Clark"

Camp Cleburne	Texas	Johnson County

Camp Clinton	Mississippi	Clinton	Housed German POWs from the Afrika Korps after their defeat in North Africa

Camp Cobb	Wisconsin

Camp Columbus	Wisconsin

Camp Como	Mississippi

Camp Concordia	Kansas	Concordia

Camp Cooke	California	Santa Barbara County

Camp Croft	South Carolina

Camp Crossville	Tennessee

Camp Crowder	Missouri

Camp David	Maryland

Camp Dawson	West Virginia

Camp Deming	New Mexico	Georg Gärtner escaped on 21 September 1945, and finally surrendered in 1985. He was the last escapee, having remained at large for 40 years.

Camp Dermott	Arkansas	Dermott, Arkansas

Camp Douglas	Wyoming	Douglas

Camp Dundee	Michigan	Two escaped. Used a railroad box car. Recaptured: Roanoke, Va.

Camp Eau Claire	Wisconsin

Camp Edwards	Massachusetts	Falmouth

Camp Ellis	Illinois

Thibodaux, Louisiana	Louisiana	Thibodaux	Housed German POWs from the Afrika Corps after defeat in North Africa. Camp was located in North Thibodaux along Coulon Road.

Camp Eunice	Louisiana

Camp Evelyn	Michigan	Alger County

Camp Faribault	Minnesota

Camp Fannin	Texas	Tyler	Located on the campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.

Camp Florence	Arizona	Florence	Largest all-new prisoner of war compound ever constructed on American soil.

Camp Fond du Lac	Wisconsin

Camp Forrest	Tennessee	Tullahoma	First attempted escape by two German POWs on 5 November 1942.

Camp Fox Lake	Wisconsin

Camp Fredonia	Wisconsin

Camp Freeland	Michigan	Freeland	The current site of the TriCity Airport (MBS)

Camp Galesville	Wisconsin

Camp Gene Autry	Oklahoma	Ardmore Army Air Field

Camp Genessee	Wisconsin

Camp Germfask	Michigan	Germfask

Camp Grant	Illinois	Rockford

Camp Grant	Michigan	Grant	Formerly located on the south-east corner of East 120th St. and South Walnut Ave.

Camp Greeley	Colorado	Greeley

Camp Green Lake	Wisconsin

Camp Gruber	Oklahoma	Muskogee

Camp Hale	Colorado	Pando-Leadville

Camp Gueydan	Louisiana

Camp Hartford	Wisconsin

Camp Hearne	Texas	Hearne

Camp Hereford	Texas	Deaf Smith County	Only for Italians

Camp Hobart	Oklahoma

Camp Hoffman	Maryland	Close to Fort Lincoln and held over 5,000 soldiers

Camp Hood	Texas

Camp Horseshoe Ranch	Oklahoma	Hickory

Camp Hortonville	Wisconsin	Hortonville	Held German POWs. All buildings have since been demolished, the only structure left standing is the base of one stone pillar where the main gate of the camp stood.

Camp Houlton	Maine

Camp Howze	Texas

Camp Hulen	Texas	Palacios

Camp Huntsdale	Pennsylvania

Camp Huntsville	Texas	One of the first segregation camps.

Camp Indianola	Nebraska

Camp Janesville	Wisconsin

Camp Jefferson	Wisconsin

Camp Jerome	Arkansas	Jerome

Camp Kaplan	Louisiana

Camp Kaufman	Texas	Kaufman

Camp Lake Keesus	Wisconsin

Camp Las Cruces	New Mexico	Las Cruces	Werner Paul Lueck escaped in November 1945 and was recaptured in Mexico City in 1954.

Camp Lee	Virginia

Camp Livingston	Louisiana

Camp Lockett	California	Campo	Auxiliary of Camp Haan in Riverside County, home to last Civil War cavalry unit, Buffalo Soldiers. POW Camp for Italians and Germans

Camp Lodi	Wisconsin

Camp Lordsburg	New Mexico	Lordsburg	1942-1945: held Japanese-American internees, and then German and Italian POWs.

Camp Mackall	North Carolina	Hoffman

Camp Marion	Ohio	Marion	http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=29115

Camp Markesan	Wisconsin

Camp Marshfield	Wisconsin

Camp McAlester	Oklahoma	McAlester and Piteburg	http://worldandmilitarynotes.com/pow/camp-mcalester-ok-usa-pow-camp/

Camp McCain	Mississippi	One of the first three designated camps for anti-Nazis, along with Camp Campbell and Fort Devens, Massachusetts.

Camp McCoy	Wisconsin	Monroe	Japanese and German POWs; Japanese, Italian, and German internees; now Fort McCoy

Camp McKay	Massachusetts	Constructed for prisoners, later reused for housing after the war

Camp McLean	Texas

Camp Mackan	North Carolina

Camp Maxey	Texas

Camp Mexia	Texas

Camp Milltown	Wisconsin

Fort Missoula	Montana	Missoula	1941-1944: Italian POWs.

Camp Myles Standish	Massachusetts	Taunton

Camp Monticello	Arkansas	Monticello

Camp Montgomery	Minnesota

Camp Natural Bridge	New York	West Point	German camp

Camp New Cumberland	Pennsylvania

Camp New Ulm	Minnesota	New Ulm	Fortuitously located outside a city where many locals still spoke German. The camp buildings are preserved in Flandrau State Park and are available for rent as a group center.

Camp Oakfield	Wisconsin

Camp Ogden	Utah

Camp Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	On site of Will Rogers World Airport.

Camp Ono	California	San Bernardino	Italian camp

Camp Opelika	Alabama

Camp Owosso	Michigan	Shlawassee County

Camp Owatonna	Minnesota

Camp Patrick Henry	Virginia	Newport News

Camp Papago Park	Arizona	Germany's "Great Escape" was from a 200 feet (61 m) tunnel by 25 prisoners on 24 December 1944.

Camp Pauls Valley	Oklahoma

Camp Peary	Virginia

Camp Perry	Ohio	Now home to the CMP Headquarters and Gary Anderson competition center

Camp Philips	Kansas

Camp Pickett	Virginia

Camp Pima	Arizona	One of the first segregation camps.

Camp Michaux	Pennsylvania	Cumberland County	Located near Pine Grove Furnace State Park. Same commander as Gettysburg Battlefield camp. |

Camp Plymouth	Wisconsin

Camp Polk	Louisiana

Camp Pomona	California

Camp Popolopen	New York

Camp Pori	Michigan	Upper Peninsula

Camp Pryor	Oklahoma

Camp Raco	Michigan	Sault Ste. Marie

Camp Reedsburg	Wisconsin

Camp Reynolds	Pennsylvania

Camp Rhinelander	Wisconsin

Camp Ritchie	Maryland	Cascade	German and Italian POW Camp during 1942–1945 housing mostly Africa Corps Officers and Italians enlisted from the Torch Campaign. Camp Ritchie also served as a U.S.

Camp Ripon	Wisconsin	Ripon

Camp Jos. T. Robinson	Arkansas	Pulaski County

Camp Rockfield	Wisconsin

Camp Roswell	New Mexico	Located 14 miles (23 km) SE of Roswell. 1942-1946: German POWs.

Camp Rucker	Alabama

Camp Rupert	Idaho	Paul

Camp Ruston	Louisiana	Ruston, Louisiana	Area Camp with 9 Branch Camps. Capacity for 4800 at main camp.

Camp San Luis Obispo	California	San Luis Obispo	Held Italian POWs

Camp Salina	Utah	Salina, Utah	This camp had a guard fire on and kill several German prisoners. See Utah prisoner of war massacre

Camp Santa Fe	New Mexico	Santa Fe

Camp Thomas A. Scott	Indiana	Fort Wayne	Camp Scott held more than 600 German POWs from the Afrika Korps from late 1944 until the camp closed in November 1945.

Camp Scottsbluff	Nebraska

Camp Shanks	New York

camp in McMillan Woods	Pennsylvania	Gettysburg Battlefield	Same commander as Camp Michaux camp.

Camp Sheboygan	Wisconsin

Camp Shelby	Mississippi

Camp Sibert	Alabama

Camp Sidnaw	Michigan	Sidnaw

Camp Somerset	Maryland

Camp Stark	New Hampshire

Camp Stewart	Georgia

Camp Stockton	California

Fort Strong	Massachusetts	Boston

Stringtown POW Camp	Oklahoma	Atoka

Camp Sturgeon Bay	Wisconsin

Camp Sturtevant	Wisconsin

Camp Sutton	North Carolina

Camp Swift	Texas	Bastrop

Camp Thomasville	Georgia	Thomasville	Large German pow camp 2 miles outside of Thomasville. Following World War II, the facilities were taken over by the Veterans Administration with both a hospital and large domiciliary complement.

Camp Thornton	Illinois

Camp Tipton	Oklahoma

Camp Tishomingo	Oklahoma

Camp Tonkawa	Oklahoma	Site of murder of Johannes Kunze by five fellow German POWs, who were subsequently tried, found guilty, hanged, and buried in the Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery.

Camp Tooele	Utah	POW Camp, Co.1, Tooele (original postage)

Camp Trinidad	Colorado	Las Animas County	A 150 feet (46 m) electrically lighted escape tunnel was discovered by authorities. This was probably a coal mining tunnel in that Engleville was a coal mining camp where this POW camp is purported to be located.

Camp Upton	New York	Suffolk County	Approximately 1,000 Japanese Americans were kept there, under tight security, behind multiple layers of barbed wire fence. Camp Upton was also used to hold Japanese citizens who were in New York City at the time war broke out, including businessman with whom the governments of Japan and the United States negotiated an exchange.

Camp Van Dorn	Mississippi

Camp Wallace	Texas	Galveston County

Camp Warner	Oregon

Camp Washington	Illinois	Washington	Reinhold Pabel escaped on 9 September 1945 and was recaptured in Chicago in March 1953

Camp Waterloo	Michigan	Heinz Eschweiler, a 27-year-old German POW, escaped and gave himself up 3 miles north of camp. Capt.

Camp Waterloo	Wisconsin

Camp Waupun	Wisconsin

Camp Waynoka	Oklahoma

Camp Weeping Water	Nebraska

Camp Wells	Minnesota

Camp Weingarten	Missouri	Located between Farmington and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Camp Wharton	Texas	Wharton

Camp Wheeler	Georgia

Camp White	Oregon

Camp White Rock	Texas	Dallas	A former CCC camp it was used for POWs who were with Rommel's Afrika Corps. After the war it became a men's dormitory for Southern Methodist University for the influx of students after the war and now is a Dallas park called Winfrey Point by White Rock Lake.

Camp Whitewater	Minnesota	St. Charles, Minnesota

Camp Wisconsin Rapids	Wisconsin

Cushing General Hospital	Massachusetts

Camp Wolters	Texas

Corpus Christi Naval Air Station	Texas	Corpus Christi

Drew Field	Florida	Now Tampa International Airport and Drew Park.

Edgewood Arsenal	Maryland

Eglin Army Air Field	Florida

Fort Andrews	Massachusetts	For Italian prisoners

Fort Benjamin Harrison	Indiana

Fort Benning	Georgia

Fort Bliss	Texas

Fort Bragg	North Carolina

Fort Campbell	Kentucky

Fort Crockett	Texas	Galveston

Fort Curtis	Virginia

Fort Custer	Michigan	In Section B of Fort Custer National Cemetery, there are 26 German graves. Sixteen of the men were killed or died as a result of an accident on 31 October 1945.

Fort Devens	Massachusetts	Devens	One of the first three designated camps for anti-Nazis, along with Camp Campbell and Camp McCain, Mississippi.

Fort Dix	New Jersey	Harry Girth escaped in June 1946 and surrendered to authorities in New York City in 1953.

Fort Drum	New York

Fort DuPont	Delaware

Fort Eustis	Virginia

Fort Getty	Rhode Island

Fort Gordon	Georgia

Fort Greble	Rhode Island

Fort Jackson	South Carolina

Fort Kearny	Rhode Island	Had program to instill democratic values in Germans based on newspaper Der Ruf (The Call)

Fort Knox	Kentucky

Fort Lawton	Washington	A riot by Negro soldiers took place over preferential treatment given to Italian and German POWs. One Italian POW was lynched, and Leon Jaworski was the military prosecutor.

Fort Leavenworth	Kansas

Fort Leonard Wood	Missouri

Fort Lewis	Washington	Located between Olympia and Tacoma, Washington.

Fort McClellan	Alabama

Fort Meade	Maryland	Fort Meade housed about 4,000 German and Italian POWs during World War II. Thirty-three German POWs and two Italian POWs are now buried in the post cemetery.

Fort Niagara	New York	Fort Niagara, along with Camp Drum (currently Fort Drum) maintained several sub- or branch camps in other New York locations, including Geneseo.

Fort Oglethorpe	Georgia	Fort Oglethorpe

Fort Omaha	Nebraska	Omaha

Fort Ord	California	A 120 feet (37 m) nearly completed escape tunnel was discovered by authorities.

Fort Patrick Henry	Virginia

Fort Reno	Oklahoma

Fort Riley	Kansas

Fort Robinson	Nebraska

Fort Rucker	Alabama

Fort D.A. Russell	Texas	Marfa	Building 98

Fort Sam Houston	Texas	San Antonio

Fort Saulsbury	Delaware

Fort Sheridan	Illinois

Fort Sill	Oklahoma	Lawton

Fort Sumner	New Mexico

Fort F.E. Warren	Wyoming

Glennan General Hospital	Oklahoma	Okmulgee	Now the site of Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology

Grider Field	Arkansas	Pine Bluff

Halloran General Hospital	New York

Hammond Northshore Regional Airport	Louisiana

Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation	Virginia

Honouliuli Internment Camp	Hawaii	also housed POWs from the Pacific

Indiantown Gap Military Reservation	Pennsylvania	Indiantown Gap

Holabird Signal Depot	Maryland

Jefferson Barracks	Missouri	St. Louis

Lovell General Hospital	Massachusetts

McCloskey General Hospital	Texas	Temple

Memphis General Depot	Tennessee

Naval Air Station Whiting Field	Florida	Milton

New Orleans Port of Embarkation	Louisiana

Olmstead Field	Pennsylvania

Patterson Field	Ohio

Pine Camp	New York	Present Day Fort Drum, NY

Port Johnson	New Jersey

Pine Bluff Arsenal	Arkansas	Pine Bluff

Richmond ASF Depot	Virginia

Tobyhanna Military Reservation	Pennsylvania	Tobyhanna

Valley Forge General Hospital	Pennsylvania	Valley Forge

Waltham Memorial Hospital	Massachusetts	Waltham

Westover Field	Massachusetts	Westover

Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp	Indiana	Windfall

Camp Haan	California	Riverside

Camp Tyson POW Camp	Tennessee	Paris

Rocky Mountain Arsenal	Colorado	Rose Hill

Bainbridge Army Airfield	Georgia	Bainbridge	Originally an Army Airfield flight training facility. Also housed several hundred German POWs who worked in nearby agricultural farms.

Rome	New York	Rome

Utica	New York	Utica

Boonville	New York	Boonville

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