List of POW camps in the United States

Prisoner of War Camps in the United States During World War II

Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article. A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of enemy combatants captured by the enemy in time of war and is similar to an Internment camp which is used for civilian

In the United States, at the end of World War II there were 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war. The camps were located all over the US but were mostly in the South because of the expense of heating the barracks. Eventually, every state with the exception of Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont had POW camps.

A (nearly) complete list of all camps can be found at http://home.arcor.de/kriegsgefangene/usa/camps_usa/standort.html

Camp Grant Rockford, IL

Camp	Location
Bradley Field	Connecticut
Camp Adair	Oregon
Camp Albuquerque	New Mexico
Camp Algoma	Idaho
Camp Algona	Iowa
Camp Aliceville	Alabama
Camp Allen	Norfolk, Virginia
Camp Alva	Oklahoma
Camp Andrews	Boston Harbor
Camp Angel Island	California
Camp Ashby	Virginia
Camp Ashford	West Virginia
Camp Atlanta	Nebraska
Camp Atterbury (3,500 Italians. BDL redirects here For the beer distributor see Brewers' Distributor Ltd Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon. Camp Albuquerque was an American World War II POW camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico that housed Italian and German Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline the Marin County Headlands and Mount Camp Atlanta was a World War II camp for German Prisoners of war located next to Atlanta Nebraska. Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh Indiana, is a training base of the Indiana National Guard. Later 10,000 Germans)(www. IndianaMilitary. org)	Indiana
Camp AuTrain	Michigan, AuTrain
Camp Barkeley	Texas
Camp Bastrop Kurt Richard Westphal escaped in August 1945, and was recaptured in Hamburg, Germany in 1954.	Texas
Camp Beale	California
Camp Blanding	Florida
Camp Bowie	Texas^[1]
Camp Brady	Texas
Camp Breckinridge	Kentucky
Camp Briner	North Carolina
Camp Bullis	San Antonio, Texas
Camp Butner Kurt Rossmeisl escaped on 4 August 1945, and surrendered in 1959. Beale Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base near Marysville, California, that was established in 1943 Camp Bowie is a United States National Guard training center located near Brownwood Texas.	North Carolina
Camp Campbell	Kentucky
Camp Carson	Colorado
Camp Chaffee	Sebastian County, Arkansas
Camp Chickasha	Grady County, Oklahoma
Camp Claiborne	Lousisiana
Camp Clarinda	Iowa
Camp Clark	Missouri
Camp Clinton	Mississippi
Camp Como	Mississippi
Camp Concordia	Kansas
Camp Cooke	California
Camp Croft	South Carolina
Camp Crossville	Tennessee
Camp Crowder	Missouri
Camp David	Maryland
Camp Deming Georg Gärtner escaped on 21 September 1945, and finally surrendered in 1985. Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee, and is home Fort Carson is a United States Army installation located immediately south of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, and 30 Fort Chaffee is in the northwest Arkansas region adjacent to the city of Fort Smith, located one mile southeast of Fort Smith Regional Airport. Camp Claiborne was a US Army Military camp during World War II located in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. Camp Clinton was a Prisoner-of-war camp that operated from 1943-1945 in Clinton Mississippi just off of present-day McRaven Road east of Springridge Road Camp Concordia was a Prisoner-of-war camp that operated from 1943-1945 Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre (0 Georg Gärtner (born 1921 was a World War II German Soldier from Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia. He was the last, and had remained at large for 40 years.	New Mexico
Camp Dermott	Arkansas
Camp Douglas	Wyoming
Camp Edwards	Massachusetts
Camp Ellis	Illinois
Camp Evelyn	Alger County, Michigan
Camp Fannin Located on the campus of the now University of Texas Health Center at Tyler. Camp Edwards is located in Falmouth Massachusetts. It was named after Major General Clarence Edwards. Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Center and Prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte Camp Fannin was a US Army Infantry Replacement Training Center and POW Camp located near Tyler TX.	Tyler, Texas
Camp Florence Largest all-new prisoner of war compound ever constructed on American soil [1]it is now used as United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)	Florence, Arizona
Camp Forrest First attempted escape by two German POWs on 5 November 1942. Camp Forrest, located near Tullahoma Tennessee, was one of the U	Tullahoma, Tennessee
Camp Gene Autry	Ardmore Army Air Field, Oklahoma
Camp Germfask	Germfask, Michigan
Camp Greeley [2]	Greeley, Colorado
Camp Gruber	near Muskogee, Oklahoma
Camp Hearne	Hearne, Texas
Camp Hereford	Deaf Smith County,Texas (only for Italians)^[2]
Camp Hobart	Oklahoma
Camp Hoffman (close to Fort Lincoln and Held over 5,000 confederate soldiers)	Maryland
Camp Hood	Texas
Camp Horseshoe Ranch	Hickory, Oklahoma
Camp Houlton	Maine
Camp Howze	Texas^[3]
Camp Hulen	Palacios,Texas
Camp Huntsdale	Pennsylvania
Camp Huntsville	Texas
Camp Indianola	Nebraska
Camp Jerome	Arkansas
Camp Las Cruces Werner Paul Lueck escaped in November 1945, and was recaptured in Mexico City in 1954. Fort Hood, named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, is a United States Army post located halfway between Austin and Waco Camp Howze was an infantry replacement training center located adjacent to the town of Gainesville in Cooke County Texas.	Las Cruces, New Mexico
Camp Lee	Virginia
Camp Livingston	Louisiana
Camp Lordsburg 1942-1945: held Japanese American internees, and then German/Italian POWs. Camp Livingston was a US Army Military camp during World War II located on the Rapides Parish and Grant Parish line in north	Lordsburg, New Mexico
Camp Mackall	Hoffman, North Carolina
Camp McAlester	Oklahoma
Camp McCain	Mississippi
Camp McCoy	Wisconsin
Camp McLean	Texas
Camp Mackan	North Carolina
Camp Maxey	Texas^[4]
Camp Mexia	Texas
Camp Myles Standish	Massachusetts
Camp Monticello	Arkansas
Camp New Cumbrland	Pennsylvania
Camp Ogden	Utah
Camp Oklahoma City	On site of Will Rogers World Airport. Camp Mackall is an active US Army training facility near Southern Pines North Carolina. Fort McCoy is an active United States Army installation It is located on 60000 acres (240 km² between Sparta and Tomah, Wisconsin, in Camp Maxey was a World War Two infantry training camp named in honor of Samuel Bell Maxey.
Camp Opelika	Alabama
Camp Owosso	Michigan, Shiawassee County
Camp Papago Park Germany's 'Great Escape' was from a 200 foot tunnel by 25 prisoners on 24 December 1944. Camp Papago Park was a Prisoner of war (POW facility located in the eponymous City of Phoenix park Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix Arizona	Arizona
Camp Pauls Valley	Oklahoma
Camp Peary	Virginia
Camp Perry	Ohio
Camp Philips	Kansas
Camp Pickett	Virginia
Camp Pima	Arizona
Camp Pine Grove Furnace / Camp Michaux	Gettysburg, PA
Camp Polk	Louisiana
Camp Pomona	California
Camp Popolopen	New York
Camp Pori	Michigan, Upper Peninsula
Camp Pryor	Oklahoma
Camp Raco	Michigan, near Sault Ste. Camp Perry is a National Guard training facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio near Port Clinton. Fort Pickett, Virginia is a Virginia Army National Guard installation located near the town of Blackstone Virginia. Marie
Camp Reynolds	Pennsyslvania
Camp Jos. T. Robinson	Arkansas
Camp Roswell 1942-1946: German POWs.	Roswell, New Mexico (14 miles SE of town)
Camp Rucker	Alabama
Camp Rupert	Idaho
Camp Ruston	Louisiana
Camp Santa Fe	New Mexico
Camp Scottsbluff	Nebraska
Camp Shanks	New York: Point of embarkation
Camp Sharpe	Gettysburg, PA
Camp Shelby	Mississippi
Camp Sibert	Alabama
Camp Sidnaw	Sidnaw, Michigan
Camp Somerset	Maryland
Camp Stark	New Hampshire
Camp Stewart	Georgia
Camp Stockton	California
Stringtown POW Camp	Atoka, Oklahoma
Camp Sutton	North Carolina
Camp Swift	Bastrop, Texas
Camp Thornton	Illinois
Camp Tipton	Oklahoma
Camp Tishomingo	Oklahoma
Camp Tonkawa Site of murder of Johannes Kunze by five fellow German POWs, who were subsequently tried, found guilty and hanged. Camp Ruston was one of the largest Prisoner of war camps in the United States during World War II, with 4315 prisoners at its peak in October 1943 Camp Shelby is a military post whose North Gate begins at the southern boundary of Hattiesburg Mississippi, on United States Highway 49. Fort Stewart is a Census-designated place and US Army post primarily in Liberty County, Georgia, but also occupying significant portions of Johannes Kunze (1903-1943 was a German World War II prisoner of war (POW held at Camp Tonkawa, Oklahoma.	Oklahoma
Camp Tooele / POW Camp, Co. 1, Tooele (original postage)	Utah
Camp Trinidad A 150-foot electrically-lighted tunnel was discovered by authorities.	Colorado
Camp Van Dorn	Mississippi
Camp Wallace	Galveston County,Texas
Camp Warner	Utah
Camp Washington Reinhold Pabel escaped on 9 September 1945, and was recaptured in Chicago in March 1953	Washington (near Peoria), Illinois
Camp Waynoka	Oklahoma
Camp Wheeler	Georgia
Camp White	Oregon
Camp Wolters	Texas
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station	Corpus Christi, Texas
Edgewood Arsenal	Matyland
Eglin Army Air Field	Florida
Fort Benjamin Harrison	Indiana
Fort Benning	Georgia
Fort Bliss	Texas
Fort Bragg	North Carolina
Fort Campbell	Kentucky
Fort Crockett	Galveston, Texas
Fort Curtis	Virginia
Fort Custer	Michigan
Fort Devens	Massachusetts
Fort Dix Harry Girth escaped in June 1946, and surrendered to authorities in New York City in 1953. Camp White was an Army training base in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, during World War II. Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles east of Mineral Wells, Texas. Fort Benjamin Harrison was a US Army post located on the northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana, named for the 23rd United States President Fort Benning is a United States Army post located southwest Fort Bliss is a United States Army Military installation of approximately -- the second largest in the Army behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee, and is home Fort Devens (sometimes known as Devens) is a Census-designated place (CDP in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County Fort Dix is a United States Army installation located in parts of New Hanover Township, Pemberton	New Jersey
Fort Drum	New York
Fort DuPont	Delaware
Fort Eustis	Virginia
Fort Gordon	Georgia
Fort Jackson	South Carolina
Fort Kearny	Rhode Island
Fort Knox	Kentucky
Fort Leavenworth	Kansas
Fort Leonard Wood	Missouri
Fort Lewis	Between Olympia and Tacoma, WA
Fort McClellan	Alabama
Fort Meade	Maryland
Fort Niagara	New York
Fort Oglethorpe	Georgia
Fort Omaha	Omaha, Nebraska
Fort Ord A 120-foot nearly completed tunnel was discovered by authorities. Fort Drum may refer to Fort Drum New York, a US Army base Fort Drum Florida, a nearly-uninhabited town in the United States Fort Eustis is a United States Army military installation located in Newport News Virginia. Fort Gordon (formerly known as Camp Gordon) is a United States Army Installation and the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps and Signal This article is about the current US Army post For other uses see Fort Jackson. Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the western U Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army facility located in Leavenworth County Kansas (just north of the city of Leavenworth) in the upper northeast Fort Leonard Wood is a Census-designated place (CDP in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. Fort Lewis is a Census-designated place and United States Army post located in Pierce County Washington, United States. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, was a United States Army installation located adjacent to the city of Anniston Alabama. Fort George G Meade, located adjacent to Odenton, Maryland, in Anne Arundel County, is an active U Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War -era United States Army supply installation Fort Ord was a US Army post on Monterey Bay in California. It was established in 1917 as a maneuver area and field artillery target range and was closed	California
Fort Patrick Henry	Virginia
Fort Reno	Oklahoma
Fort Riley	Kansas
Fort Robinson	Nebraska
Fort D. Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in Northeast Kansas, on the Kansas River, between Junction City Fort Robinson is a former US Army fort and a present-day state park A. Russell	Texas
Fort Sam Houston	Texas
Fort Sheridan	Illinois
Fort Sill	Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sumner	New Mexico
Fort F. Fort Sam Houston is a US Army post in San Antonio Texas.Known colloquially as "Fort Sam" it is named for the first President of the Republic of Fort Sheridan is a neighborhood spread between Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois, United Fort Sill is a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. Fort Sumner was a military fort in De Baca County in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache E. Warren	Wyoming
Glennan General Hospital	Oklahoma
Halloran General Hospital	New York
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation	Virginia
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation	Pennsyslvania
Holabird Signal Depot	Maryland
McCloskey General Hospital	Texas
Memphis General Depot	Tennessee
New Orleans Port of Embarkation	Louisiana
Olmstead Field	Pennsyslvania
Pine Bluff Arsenal	Arkansas
Richmond ASF Depot	Virginia
Tobyhanna Military Reservation	Pennsyslvania
Westover Field	Massachusetts

  Unknown camp name  kids have found writings and broken cahirs and windows. Fort Indiantown Gap, also referred to as "The Gap" or "FiG", is a fort located along Interstate 81 in Lebanon County Pennsylvania Fort Holabird was a US Army post in Maryland state It closed in 1973 The Port of New Orleans is a Port located in New Orleans Louisiana. The Pine Bluff Arsenal is an active military arsenal that stores 12 Tobyhanna Army Depot is a logistics center for the United States Defense Department (DoD specializing in electronic systems and located near Tobyhanna Pennsylvania For the civil airport use of this facility see Westover Metropolitan Airport Westover Air Reserve Base / Metropolitan is an Air Force Reserve Command      School Dunsmore California

More information pertaining to these camps may be found at Wikipedia article POW.

References

^ "News from the Bowie Camp 1943" Written account from Joseph Lehman to friend Margie Krumpleman
^ "Account from the Hereford Camp" for more see reference therein.
^ Camp Howze 1944 1945 " from a long term resident at the camp written to his girlfriend"
^ "August 1943 discription of the Camp Maxey" Letters from Camp Maxey

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