List of POW camps in the United States

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Prisoner of War Camps in the United States During WWII

Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article.

In the United States, at the end of WWII 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.

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

Camp	Location
Camp Albuquerque	New Mexico
Camp Algoma	Idaho
Camp Algona	Iowa
Camp Aliceville	Alabama
Camp Allen	Norfolk, Virginia
Camp Alva	Oklahoma
Camp Angel Island	California
Camp Ashby	Virginia
Camp Ashford	West Virginia
Camp Atlanta	Nebraska
Camp Atterbury (3,500 Italians. 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.	Arkansas
Camp Beale	California
Camp Blanding	Florida
Camp Bowie	Texas
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.	North Carolina
Camp Campbell	Kentucky
Camp Carson	Colorado
Camp Chaffee	Arkansas
Camp Chickasha	Grady, 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 Gaertner escaped on 21 September 1945, and finally surrendered in 1985. 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 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.	Tullahoma, Tennessee
Camp Gene Autry	Ardmore Army Air Field, Oklahoma
Camp Germfask	Germfask, Michigan
Camp Greeley [2]	Greeley, Colorado
Camp Gruber	Oklahoma
Camp Hearne	Hearne, Texas
Camp Hereford	Castro County Texas (only for Italians)
Camp Hobart	Oklahoma
Camp Hood	Texas
Camp Horseshoe Ranch	Hickory, Oklahoma
Camp Houlton	Maine
Camp Howze	Texas
Camp Hulen	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.	Las Cruces, New Mexico
Camp Lee	Virginia
Camp Livingston	Louisiana
Camp Lordsburg 1942-1945: held Japanese American internees, and then German/Italian POWs.	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
Camp Mexia	Texas
Camp Monticello	Arkansas
Camp New Cumbrland	Pennsylvania
Camp Ogden	Utah
Camp Oklahoma City	On site of Will Rogers World Airport.
Camp Opelika	Alabama
Camp Owosso	Michigan, Owosso County
Camp Papago Park Germany's 'Great Escape' was from a 200 foot tunnel by 25 prisoners on 24 December 1944.	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 Popolopen	New York
Camp Pori	Michigan, Upper Peninsula
Camp Pryor	Oklahoma
Camp Raco	Michigan, near Sault Ste. 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	Michigan, Sidnaw
Camp Somerset	Maryland
Camp Stewart	Georgia
Camp Stockton	California
Stringtown POW Camp	Atoka, Oklahoma
Camp Sutton	North Carolina
Camp Swift	Bastrop, Texas
Camp Tipton	Oklahoma
Camp Tishomingo	Oklahoma
Camp Tonkawa	Oklahoma
Camp Trinidad A 150-foot electrically-lighted tunnel was discovered by authorities.	Colorado
Camp Van Dorn	Mississippi
Camp Wallace	Texas
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
Edgewood Arsenal	Matyland
Elgin Army Air Field	Florida
Fort Benjamin Harrison	Indiana
Fort Benning	Georgia
Fort Bliss	Texas
Fort Bragg	North Carolina
Fort Campbell	Kentucky
Fort Crockett	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.	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 Ord A 120-foot nearly completed tunnel was discovered by authorities.	California
Fort Patrick Henry	Virginia
Fort Reno	Oklahoma
Fort Riley	Kansas
Fort Robinson	Nebraska
Fort D. A. Russell	Texas
Fort Sam Houston	Texas
Fort Sheridan	Illinois
Fort Sill	Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sumner	New Mexico
Fort F.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 Fields	Massachusetts