Prisoner-of-war camp

Prisoner-of-war camp

A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of combatants captured by their enemy in time of war, and is similar to an internment camp which is used for civilian populations. A prisoner of war is generally a soldier, sailor, or airman who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or...

s in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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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 (mostly German)

German prisoners of war in the United States

German prisoners of war in the United States were members of the German military interned in the United States as prisoners of war during World War I and World War II...

. 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.

Camp	Location
Boston Port of Embarkation	Boston, Massachusetts
Camp Allegan	Michigan
Camp Antigo	Wisconsin
Bradley Field Bradley International Airport Bradley International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located in Windsor Locks on the border with East Granby and Suffield, in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is owned by the State of Connecticut....	Connecticut
Camp Adair Camp Adair Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946. Part of the site is now contained within the E. E...	Oregon
Camp Albuquerque Camp Albuquerque Camp Albuquerque was an American World War II POW camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico that housed Italian and German prisoners of war. From this branch camp, the POWs did mostly farm labor, from 1943 to 1946. Most of these POWs were transferred from Camp Roswell, which was a base or main POW camp for...	New Mexico
Camp Algoma	Idaho
Camp Algona	Iowa
Camp Aliceville	Alabama
Camp Allen Camp Allen Camp Allen, formerly Camp Elmore, is a small United States Marine Corps base in Norfolk, Virginia, a satellite of the Naval Station Norfolk. It is home to both the 1st and 3rd Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team Companies . The base also houses a supply warehouse, battalion aid station, and a motor...
Camp Alva	Oklahoma
Camp Andrews	Boston Harbor, Massachusetts
Camp Angel Island	California
Camp Ashby Camp Ashby Camp Ashby was a temporary U.S. Army installation sited in Berkeley, California during World War II. The base was named for Ashby Avenue, a nearby thoroughfare , which in turn was named for one of Berkeley's earliest settlers, William Ashby .Camp Ashby was used to quarter and train the 779th...	California
Camp Ashford	West Virginia
Camp Atlanta Camp Atlanta Camp Atlanta was a World War II camp for German prisoners of war located next to Atlanta, Nebraska. Over three years, it housed nearly 3,000 prisoners...	Nebraska
Camp Atterbury Camp Atterbury Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, Indiana, USA, is a training base of the Indiana National Guard. It was planned just months before the U.S. entry into World War II. Originally surveyed and researched by the Hurd Company, the present site was recommended to Congress in 1941. Construction commenced...	Indiana	Housed 3,500 Italians and later 10,000 Germans
Camp AuTrain
Camp Barkeley Camp Barkeley Camp Barkeley was a large United States Army training installation during World War II. The base was located eleven miles southwest of Abilene, Texas near what is now Dyess Air Force Base. The base was named after David B. Barkley, a Medal of Honor recipient during World War I...	Texas
Camp Barron	Wisconsin
Camp Bassett	Arkansas
Camp Bastrop	Texas	Kurt Richard Westphal escaped in August 1945 and was recaptured in Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... , Germany, in 1954.
Camp Bayfield	Wisconsin
Camp Beale Beale Air Force Base Beale Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately east of Marysville, California. Originally known as Camp Beale....	California
Camp Beaver Dam Camp Beaver Dam Camp Beaver Dam was an American World War II prisoner of war camp in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin during the summer of 1944. The camp held 300 German prisoners of war in a tent city encampment where the Wayland Academy field house now stands.-Further reading:...	Wisconsin
Camp Billy Mitchell	Wisconsin
Camp Blanding Camp Blanding Camp Blanding Joint Training Center is the primary military reservation and training base for the Florida National Guard, both the Florida Army National Guard and certain non-flying activities of the Florida Air National Guard. The installation is located in Clay County, Florida near the city of...	Florida
Camp Bowie Camp Bowie Camp Bowie is a United States National Guard training center located in west central Texas near the cities of Brownwood and Early.-History:Camp Bowie, in honor of the Texas patriot James Bowie, was a military training facility during World War II, and was the third camp in Texas to be so named...	Texas
Camp Brady	Texas
Camp Breckinridge	Kentucky
Camp Briner	North Carolina
Camp Bullis Camp Bullis Camp Bullis Military Training Reservation is a U.S. Army training camp located in Bexar County, Texas, just northwest of San Antonio, USA. The camp is named for Brigadier General John Lapham Bullis ,...	San Antonio, Texas
Camp Butner Camp Butner Camp Butner was a United States Army installation in Butner, North Carolina during World War II. It was named after Army General Henry W. Butner....	North Carolina	Kurt Rossmeisl escaped on 4 August 1945 and surrendered in 1959.
Camp Cambria	Wisconsin
Camp Campbell Fort Campbell Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astraddle the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee...	Kentucky
Camp Carson	Colorado
Camp Chaffee Fort Chaffee Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center is in the northwest Arkansas region adjacent to the city of Fort Smith, located one mile southeast of Fort Smith Regional Airport. The Arkansas River flows eastward along the northern border of the post. Interstate 40 is five miles to the north on the...
Camp Chase Camp Chase Camp Chase was a military staging, training and prison camp in Columbus, Ohio, during the American Civil War. All that remains of the camp today is a Confederate cemetery containing 2,260 graves. The cemetery is located in what is now the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.- History :Camp Chase...	Ohio
Camp Chickasha
Camp Chilton	Wisconsin
Camp Claiborne Camp Claiborne Camp Claiborne was a U.S. Army military camp during World War II located in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. The camp was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Eighth Service Command, and included 23,000 acres ....	Louisiana
Camp Clarinda	Iowa
Camp Clark	Missouri
Camp Clinton Camp Clinton Camp Clinton was a World War II prisoner of war facility located in Clinton, Mississippi, just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road. Camp Clinton was home to 3,000 German and Italian POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps...	Mississippi
Camp Cobb	Wisconsin
Camp Columbus	Wisconsin
Camp Como	Mississippi
Camp Concordia Camp Concordia Camp Concordia was a Prisoner-of-war camp that operated from 1943-1945. Its location is two miles north and one mile east of Concordia, Kansas...	Kansas
Camp Cooke Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately northwest of Lompoc, California. It is under the jurisdiction of the 30th Space Wing, Air Force Space Command ....	California
Camp Croft	South Carolina
Camp Crossville	Tennessee
Camp Crowder Fort Crowder Fort Crowder was a U.S. Army post in southwest Missouri, constructed and used during World War II.-Establishment and Purpose:Originally established as Camp Crowder south of Neosho, Missouri in 1941, the post was to serve as an armor training center. The U.S. Army selected the Neosho site for the...	Missouri
Camp David Camp David Camp David is the country retreat of the President of the United States and his guests. It is located in low wooded hills about 60 mi north-northwest of Washington, D.C., on the property of Catoctin Mountain Park in unincorporated Frederick County, Maryland, near Thurmont, at an elevation of...	Maryland
Camp Dawson Camp Dawson (West Virginia) Camp Dawson is a West Virginia Army National Guard facility in Preston County, West Virginia, USA.Camp Dawson was established on May 7, 1909 when the West Virginia Legislature authorized the purchase of of land on Dunkard Bottom along the Cheat River. The camp was named in honor of William M. O....	West Virginia
Camp Deming	New Mexico	Georg Gärtner Georg Gärtner Georg Gärtner was a World War II German soldier from Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia.-Biography:While serving with the Afrika Korps, Gärtner was captured by Allied troops in Tunis in 1943 and was brought to America as a prisoner of war. He escaped from his prison camp in Deming, New Mexico, at the...  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
Camp Douglas Douglas, Wyoming WWII POW Camp The Douglas, Wyoming World War II POW Camp was a Prisoners of War internment camp in the City of Douglas, Wyoming. Between January 1943 and February 1946 in the camp housing first Italian POWs and then German POWs. While there are few remaining structures, the walls of the Officer's Club were...	Wyoming
Camp Eau Claire	Wisconsin
Camp Edwards Camp Edwards Camp Edwards is a United States military training installation which is located in western Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It forms the largest part of the Massachusetts Military Reservation, which also includes Otis Air National Guard Base and Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod. It was named after...	Falmouth, Massachusetts
Camp Ellis Camp Ellis 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, Ipava, and Table Grove in Fulton County, Illinois. Construction began on September 17th, 1942, and the camp opened on 1943-04-16,, with an official...	Illinois
Camp Eunice	Louisiana
Camp Evelyn
Camp Faribault	Minnesota
Camp Fannin Camp Fannin Camp Fannin was a U.S. Army Infantry Replacement Training Center and POW Camp located near Tyler, TX. It was opened in 1943 and only operated for four years, before closing in 1946. It is credited with training over 200,000 U.S. Soldiers, sometimes as many as 40,000 at one given time.Originally...		Located on the campus of the now University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.
Camp Florence		Largest all-new prisoner of war compound ever constructed on American soil. It is now used as United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
Camp Fond du Lac	Wisconsin
Camp Forrest Camp Forrest Camp Forrest, located in Tullahoma, Tennessee, was one of the U.S. Army's largest training bases during World War II. It was an active Army post between 1941 and 1946.-History:...		First attempted escape by two German POWs on 5 November 1942.
Camp Fox Lake	Wisconsin
Camp Fredonia
Camp Freeland	Michigan
Camp Galesville	Wisconsin
Camp Gene Autry
Camp Genessee	Wisconsin
Camp Germfask
Camp Grant Camp Grant (Illinois) For other uses see Camp Grant.Camp Grant was a U.S. Army facility located in the southern outskirts of Rockford, Illinois named in honor of General Ulysses S. Grant...
Camp Greeley
Camp Green Lake	Wisconsin
Camp Gruber Camp Gruber Camp Gruber Maneuver Training Center is an Oklahoma Army National Guard training facility used for Summer field training exercises and for monthly drills. It covers a total of .The base is named after General Edmund L...
Camp Hale Camp Hale Camp Hale, between Red Cliff and Leadville in the Eagle River valley in Colorado, was a U.S. Army training facility constructed in 1942 for what became the 10th Mountain Division. It was named for General Irving Hale....
Camp Gueydan	Louisiana
Camp Hartford	Wisconsin
Camp Hearne
Camp Hereford
Camp Hobart	Oklahoma
Camp Hoffman	Maryland	Close to Fort Lincoln and held over 5,000 confederate soldiers
Camp Hood	Texas
Camp Horseshoe Ranch
Camp Hortonville	Wisconsin
Camp Houlton	Maine
Camp Howze Camp Howze, Texas Camp Howze was an infantry replacement training center located adjacent to the town of Gainesville in Cooke County, Texas. It was named for Major Robert Lee Howze, a Medal of Honor recipient.-History:...	Texas
Camp Hulen Camp Hulen Camp Hulen was a military training camp near Palacios, Texas, United States that operated from 1925 until 1946, and at one time supported the largest concentration of troops for field training in the United States military....
Camp Huntsdale	Pennsylvania
Camp Huntsville	Texas
Camp Indianola	Nebraska
Camp Janesville	Wisconsin
Camp Jefferson	Wisconsin
Camp Jerome	Arkansas
Camp Kaplan	Louisiana
Camp Lake Keesus	Wisconsin
Camp Las Cruces		Werner Paul Lueck escaped in November 1945 and was recaptured in Mexico City Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...  in 1954.
Camp Lee	Virginia
Camp Livingston Camp Livingston Camp Livingston was a U.S. Army military camp during World War II located on the Rapides Parish and Grant Parish line in north Louisiana, north of Pineville, Louisiana.- History :...	Louisiana
Camp Lockett Camp Lockett Camp Lockett was a United States Army military base located in Campo, California, east of San Diego, and north of the Mexican border. Camp Lockett has historical connections to the Buffalo Soldiers due to the 10th and 28th Cavalry Regiments having being garrisoned there during World War II. It was...	California
Camp Lodi	Wisconsin
Camp Lordsburg		1942-1945: held Japanese-American internees, and then German and Italian POWs.
Camp Mackall Camp Mackall Camp Mackall is an active U.S. Army training facility located in eastern Richmond County and northern Scotland County, North Carolina, south of the town of Southern Pines. The facility is in close proximity to and is a sub-installation of Fort Bragg Camp Mackall is an active U.S. Army training...
Camp Markesan	Wisconsin
Camp Marshfield	Wisconsin
Camp McAlester	Oklahoma
Camp McCain	Mississippi
Camp McCoy Fort McCoy, Wisconsin Fort McCoy is an active United States Army installation. It is located on 60,000 acres between Sparta and Tomah, Wisconsin, in Monroe County...	Wisconsin	German POWs
Camp McKay	Massachusetts	Constructed for prisoners, later reused for housing after the war
Camp McLean	Texas
Camp Mackan	North Carolina
Camp Maxey Camp Maxey Camp Maxey was a World War II infantry training camp named in honor of Samuel Bell Maxey.Located just north of Paris, Texas, it opened on July 15, 1942 under the command of Colonel C.H. Palmer...	Texas
Camp Mexia	Texas
Camp Milltown	Wisconsin
Camp Myles Standish Camp Myles Standish Camp Myles Standish was a U.S. Army camp located in Taunton, Massachusetts. It functioned as a prisoner-of-war camp, a departure area for about a million U.S...	Taunton, Massachusetts
Camp Monticello	Arkansas
Camp Montgomery	Minnesota
Camp Natural Bridge		(German)
Camp New Cumberland	Pennsylvania
Camp New Ulm		Fortuitously located outside a city where many locals still spoke German. The camp buildings are preserved in Flandrau State Park Flandrau State Park Flandrau State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the Cottonwood River adjacent to the city of New Ulm. Initially called Cottonwood River State Park, it was renamed in 1945 to honor Charles Eugene Flandrau, a leading citizen of early Minnesota who commanded defenses during the Battles of...  and are available for rent as a group center.
Camp Oakfield	Wisconsin
Camp Ogden	Utah
Camp Oklahoma City
Camp Ono		(Italian)
Camp Opelika	Alabama
Camp Owosso
Camp Owatonna	Minnesota
Camp Patrick Henry Camp Patrick Henry Camp Patrick Henry is a decommissioned United States Army base which was located in Warwick County, Virginia. After World War II, the site was redeveloped as a commercial airport, and became part of City of Newport News in 1958 when the former City of Warwick and Newport News were politically...	Virginia
Camp Papago Park Camp Papago Park Camp Papago Park was a prisoner of war facility located in Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix, Arizona. It consisted of five compounds, four for enlisted men and one for officers...	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 Camp Peary Camp Peary is a military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia. Officially it is referred to as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity under the auspices of the Department of Defense, but it is widely believed to be the location of a covert CIA training facility known...	Virginia
Camp Perry Camp Perry Camp Perry is a National Guard training facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio near Port Clinton. In addition to its regular mission as a military training base, Camp Perry also boasts the largest outdoor rifle range in the world...	Ohio
Camp Philips	Kansas
Camp Pickett Fort Pickett Fort Pickett, Virginia, is a Virginia Army National Guard installation, located near the town of Blackstone, Virginia. It is named for the United States Army officer and Confederate General George Pickett.- Beginnings :...	Virginia
Camp Pima	Arizona
Camp Michaux Camp Michaux Camp Michaux was a secret World War II camp for interrogating prisoners of war. The camp northwest of the Pine Grove Iron Works was previously used as a CCC Camp that provided labor for state-owned lands and was used as a summer camp. The POW camp commander was Captain Lawrence C...		Near Pine Grove Furnace State Park Pine Grove Furnace State Park Pine Grove Furnace State Park is a protected Pennsylvania area that includes Laurel and Fuller lakes in Cooke Township. The park provides various outdoor recreation activities, has the remains of the Pine Grove Iron Works, and was the site of the 1830 Laurel Forge, 1880s Pine Grove Park, and an...  (same commander as Gettysburg Battlefield camp)
Camp Plymouth	Wisconsin
Camp Polk Fort Polk Fort Polk is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, approximately 7 miles east of Leesville, Louisiana and 20 miles north of DeRidder, Louisiana....	Louisiana
Camp Pomona	California
Camp Popolopen	New York
Camp Pori
Camp Pryor	Oklahoma
Camp Raco
Camp Reedsburg	Wisconsin
Camp Reynolds	Pennsylvania
Camp Rhinelander	Wisconsin
Camp Ripon	Wisconsin
Camp Jos. T. Robinson	Arkansas
Camp Rockfield	Wisconsin
Camp Roswell		1942-1946: German POWs.
Camp Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker is a U.S. Army post located mostly in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It was named for a Civil War officer, Confederate General Edmund Rucker. The post is the primary flight training base for Army Aviation and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence and...	Alabama
Camp Rupert Camp Rupert Camp Rupert was a World War II prisoner of war camp near Paul, Idaho. It was built for $1.5 million, which was everything needed for a city of 3,000: barracks, water, sewer, and a hospital. The first POWs were Italian and were received in May 1944...	Idaho
Camp Ruston Camp Ruston 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.- Construction and WAC use :...	Louisiana
Camp Santa Fe	New Mexico
Camp Thomas A. Scott		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 Camp Shanks Camp Shanks, named after Major General David Carey Shanks was a United States Army installation in and around Orangeburg in the Town of Orangetown, New York. Situated near the juncture of the Erie Railroad and the Hudson River, it served as a point of embarkation for troops departing overseas...
camp World War II Prisoner of War Camp, Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania The World War II Prisoner of War camp on the Gettysburg Battlefield operated from June 29, 1945, through April 1946 at the former site of the McMillan Woods CCC camp....  in McMillan Woods McMillan Woods McMillan Woods was used during the Battle of Gettysburg and for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War, including the WWII POW camp at Gettysburg...		same commander as Camp Michaux camp
Camp Sheboygan	Wisconsin
Camp Shelby Camp Shelby Camp Shelby is a military post whose North Gate begins at the southern boundary of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on United States Highway 49. It is the largest state owned training site in the nation. During wartime, the camp's mission is to serve as a major, independent mobilization station of the...	Mississippi
Camp Sibert	Alabama
Camp Sidnaw
Camp Somerset	Maryland
Camp Stark	New Hampshire
Camp Stewart Fort Stewart Fort Stewart is a census-designated place and U.S. Army post primarily in Liberty County and Bryan County, but also extending into smaller portions of Evans, Long, and Tattnall Counties in Georgia, USA. The population was 11,205 at the 2000 census...	Georgia
Camp Stockton	California
Fort Strong Fort Strong Fort Strong is located on Long Island in Boston Harbor.It was originally named Long Island Military Reservation until 1899.Camp Wightman, a Civil War training camp, was located on the island in 1861....	Boston, Massachusetts
Stringtown POW Camp
Camp Sturgeon Bay	Wisconsin
Camp Sturtevant	Wisconsin
Camp Sutton	North Carolina
Camp Swift
Camp Thornton	Illinois
Camp Tipton	Oklahoma
Camp Tishomingo	Oklahoma
Camp Tonkawa	Oklahoma	Site of murder of Johannes Kunze Johannes Kunze Johannes Kunze was a German World War II prisoner of war held at Camp Tonkawa, Oklahoma. He was a Gefreiter in the Afrika Korps. Following a trial before a kangaroo court on November 4, 1943, he was beaten to death by fellow POWs for being a traitor. There was very strong evidence that Kunze had...  by five fellow German POWs, who were subsequently tried, found guilty, hanged, and buried in the Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery is a cemetery maintained by the Fort Leavenworth Military Prison... .
Camp Tooele	Utah	POW Camp, Co.1, Tooele (original postage)
Camp Trinidad	Colorado	A 150 feet (45.7 m) electrically-lighted escape tunnel was discovered by authorities.
Camp Van Dorn	Mississippi
Camp Wallace Camp Wallace Camp Wallace was a facility of the United States Army located near the unincorporated town of Grove in southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula portion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States....
Camp Warner Camp Warner Camp Warner was a United States Army outpost in south-central Oregon, United States. Camp Warner was located at two different sites approximately apart. The Army called both sites Camp Warner. However, the first site became known as Old Camp Warner. It was used as winter quarters in 1866–1867 and...	Utah
Camp Washington Camp Washington Camp Washington may refer to:*Camp Washington, Cincinnati*Camp Washington, Maryland, the 1928 military installation with the 12th Infantry Regiment *Camp Washington, Staten Island...		Reinhold Pabel escaped on 9 September 1945 and was recaptured in Chicago in March 1953
Camp Waterloo	Michigan
Camp Waterloo	Wisconsin
Camp Waupun	Wisconsin
Camp Waynoka	Oklahoma
Camp Weeping Water	Nebraska
Camp Wells	Minnesota
Camp Weingarten
Camp Wharton
Camp Wheeler Camp Wheeler Camp Wheeler was a United States Army base near Macon, Georgia. The camp was a staging location for many US Army units during World War I and World War II. It was named for Joseph Wheeler, a general in the Confederate States of America's Army....	Georgia
Camp White Camp White Camp White was an Army training base in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, during World War II. It was also the site of a prisoner-of-war camp. The camp was named in honor of George A. White, who served as adjutant general for Oregon starting in 1915. The camp was dedicated September 15, 1942...	Oregon
Camp White Rock
Camp Wisconsin Rapids	Wisconsin
Cushing General Hospital	Massachusetts
Camp Wolters Fort Wolters Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles northeast of Mineral Wells, Texas. Originally named Camp Wolters, it was an Army camp from 1925 to 1946. During World War II, it was for a time the largest infantry replacement training center in the United States. After the war, the...	Texas
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Edgewood Arsenal	Maryland
Eglin Army Air Field Eglin Air Force Base Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 3 miles southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County....	Florida
Fort Benjamin Harrison Fort Benjamin Harrison Fort Benjamin Harrison was a U.S. Army post located in suburban Lawrence, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It is named for the 23rd United States President, Benjamin Harrison. Land was purchased in 1903, with the post being officially named for President Harrison in honor of Indianapolis being...	Indiana
Fort Benning Fort Benning Fort Benning is a United States Army post located southeast of the city of Columbus in Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in Georgia and Russell County, Alabama...	Georgia
Fort Bliss Fort Bliss Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of about , it is the Army's second-largest installation behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. It is FORSCOM's largest installation, and has the Army's largest Maneuver Area behind the...	Texas
Fort Bragg Fort Bragg (North Carolina) Fort Bragg is a major United States Army installation, in Cumberland and Hoke counties, North Carolina, U.S., mostly in Fayetteville but also partly in the town of Spring Lake. It was also a census-designated place in the 2010 census and had a population of 39,457. The fort is named for Confederate...	North Carolina
Fort Campbell Fort Campbell Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astraddle the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee...	Kentucky
Fort Crockett Fort Crockett Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlookingthe Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay,...
Fort Curtis	Virginia
Fort Custer	Michigan
Fort Devens Fort Devens, Massachusetts Devens, Massachusetts is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996. The area...	Devens, Massachusetts
Fort Dix	New Jersey	Harry Girth escaped in June 1946 and surrendered to authorities in New York City in 1953.
Fort Drum Fort Drum Fort Drum is a United States Army base in New York near the Canadian border.Fort Drum may also refer to:*Fort Drum, Florida, a nearly-uninhabited town in the United States*Fort Drum , Philippines...	New York
Fort DuPont Fort DuPont Fort DuPont, named in honor of Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, is located between Delaware City and the modern Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the original Reeden Point tract, which was granted to Henry Ward in 1675. The first fortification built was the Ten Gun Battery, an auxiliary to...	Delaware
Fort Eustis	Virginia
Fort Gordon Fort Gordon Fort Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established in 1917. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps and Signal Center and was once the home of "The Provost Marshal General School" . The fort is located in Richmond, Jefferson, McDuffie,...	Georgia
Fort Jackson	South Carolina
Fort Kearny Fort Kearny Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the western U.S. during the middle and late 19th century. The outpost was located along the Oregon Trail near present-day Kearney, Nebraska, which took its name from the fort .-Origins and various missions of the...	Rhode Island
Fort Knox Fort Knox Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet...	Kentucky
Fort Lawton Fort Lawton Fort Lawton is a United States Army fort located in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The fort was included in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list.-History:...	Washington	A riot Fort Lawton Riot ”The largest and longest U.S. Army court-martial of World War II took place at Seattle's Fort Lawton. 43 U.S. soldiers, all of them African-American, were charged with rioting; three were also charged with the lynching death of an Italian prisoner of war named Guglielmo Olivotto.Some resources ...  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. The Italian and one German POW who committed suicide rather than be repatriated are buried just outside the post cemetery boundaries.
Fort Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army facility located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth in the upper northeast portion of the state. It is the oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C. and has been in operation for over 180 years...	Kansas
Fort Leonard Wood Fort Leonard Wood (military base) Fort Leonard Wood is a United States Army installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood, former Chief of Staff, in January 1941...	Missouri
Fort Lewis Fort Lewis Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a United States military facility located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Garrison, Joint Base Lewis-McChord....
Fort McClellan Fort McClellan Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, was a United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops...	Alabama
Fort Meade Fort George G. Meade Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation that includes the Defense Information School, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Courier Service...	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. The most famous of those buried on the installation is German submariner Werner Henke Werner Henke Lieutenant Commander Werner Henke born in Thorn in Germany was the commander of during the Second Battle of the Atlantic of World War II. U-515 was sunk by the American task group 22.3, commanded by Daniel V... , who was shot while trying to escape from a secret interrogation center at Fort Hunt, Virginia. The captain is the sole German Navy officer buried among enlisted German Army soldiers.
Fort Niagara Fort Niagara Fort Niagara is a fortification originally built to protect the interests of New France in North America. It is located near Youngstown, New York, on the eastern bank of the Niagara River at its mouth, on Lake Ontario.-Origin:...	New York
Fort Oglethorpe Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia) Fort Oglethorpe was an Army post established in 1902 and opened in 1904. It served largely as a cavalry post for the 6th Cavalry. During World War I Fort Oglethorpe was home to 4,000 German Prisoners of War and civilian detainees. During World War I and World War II, it became a war-time...	Georgia
Fort Omaha Fort Omaha Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, Nebraska, the facility is primarily occupied by ...
Fort Ord Fort Ord Fort Ord was a U.S. Army post on Monterey Bay in California. It was established in 1917 as a maneuver area and field artillery target range and was closed in September 1994. Fort Ord was one of the most attractive locations of any U.S. Army post, because of its proximity to the beach and California...	California	A 120 feet (36.6 m) nearly-completed escape tunnel was discovered by authorities.
Fort Patrick Henry	Virginia
Fort Reno Fort Reno (Oklahoma) Fort Reno was established as a permanent post in July 1875, near the Darlington Indian Agency on the old Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in Indian Territory, in present-day central Oklahoma. Named for General Jesse L. Reno, who died at the Battle of South Mountain, it supported the U.S...	Oklahoma
Fort Riley Fort Riley Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in Northeast Kansas, on the Kansas River, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 100,656 acres in Geary and Riley counties and includes two census-designated places: Fort Riley North and Fort...	Kansas
Fort Robinson Fort Robinson Fort Robinson is a former U.S. Army fort and a present-day state park. Located in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska, it is west of Crawford on U.S. Route 20.- History :...	Nebraska
Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker is a U.S. Army post located mostly in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It was named for a Civil War officer, Confederate General Edmund Rucker. The post is the primary flight training base for Army Aviation and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence and...	Alabama
Fort D.A. Russell	Texas
Fort Sam Houston Fort Sam Houston Fort Sam Houston is a U.S. Army post in San Antonio, Texas.Known colloquially as "Fort Sam," it is named for the first President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston....	Texas
Fort Sheridan Fort Sheridan, Illinois Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood spread among Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as a United States Army Post named after Civil War Cavalry General Philip Sheridan, to honor his services to Chicago...	Illinois
Fort Sill Fort Sill Fort Sill is a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.Today, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the South Plains built during the Indian Wars...
Fort Sumner Fort Sumner Fort Sumner was a military fort in De Baca County in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo.-History:...	New Mexico
Fort F.E. Warren	Wyoming
Glennan General Hospital	Oklahoma Grider Field, Pine Bluff Arkansas
Halloran General Hospital	New York
Hammond Northshore Regional Airport Hammond Northshore Regional Airport Hammond Northshore Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Hammond, a city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States.Although most U.S...	Louisiana
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation	Virginia
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Fort Indiantown Gap Fort Indiantown Gap, also referred to as "The Gap" or "FIG", is a census-designated place and U.S. Army post primarily located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. A portion of the installation is located in eastern Dauphin County...	Pennsylvania
Holabird Signal Depot	Maryland
Lovell General Hospital	Massachusetts
McCloskey General Hospital	Texas
Memphis General Depot	Tennessee
Naval Air Station Whiting Field Naval Air Station Whiting Field Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a United States Navy base located near Milton, Florida, in central Santa Rosa County, and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases . NAS Whiting Field also provides training for U.S. Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force student pilots, as well as...
New Orleans Port of Embarkation Port of New Orleans The Port of New Orleans is a port located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the 1st in the United States based on volume of cargo handled, second-largest in the state after the Port of South Louisiana, and 13th largest in the U.S. based on value of cargo...	Louisiana
Olmstead Field	Pennsylvania
Port Johnson Port Johnston Coal Docks The Port Johnston Coal Docks were built on Constable Hook in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1864 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The coal dock was named after the company's president John Taylor Johnston....	New Jersey
Pine Bluff Arsenal Pine Bluff Arsenal The Pine Bluff Arsenal is a US Army installation located in Jefferson County, Arkansas, just northwest of the city of Pine Bluff. PBA is one of the six Army installations in the United States that store chemical weapons...	Arkansas
Richmond ASF Depot	Virginia
Tobyhanna Military Reservation Tobyhanna Army Depot Tobyhanna Army Depot, is a logistics center for the United States Defense Department , specializing in electronic systems and located in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, near Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Established Feb...	Pennsylvania		–	Valley Forge General Hospital, later the Golf Course area Valley Forge Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary War.-History:...	Pennsylvania
Waltham Memorial Hospital	Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...
Westover Field Westover Joint Air Reserve Base Westover Air Reserve Base is an Air Force Reserve Command installation located in the Massachusetts communities of Chicopee and Ludlow, near the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Westover hosts the largest Air Reserve Base in the world in terms of area...	Massachusetts
Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp	Indiana
Camp Tyson POW Camp	Paris, Tennessee
Rose Hill Rose Hill -People:* Rose Hill , British actress* Rose Hill , British wheelchair athlete-England:* Rose Hill, Derby, inner city suburb in Derby* Rose Hill, Oxfordshire, city council estate near Oxford...

External links

• A nearly complete list of all camps
• Camp Rucker (Fort Rucker), Alabama