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	POW Camps
		The camp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence and the perimeter was not equipped with floodlights or watchtowers.
		POW Strength: On 18-19 July 1944 the number of prisoners was doubled with the arrival of 2,400 American and 800 British from Stalag 6 at Heydekrug, Germany.
		Camp Description: In summer 1944, Stalag Luft 6 far away in the East was closed, not only because of complaints from the International Red Cross but also because of the Russian pressure against the Germans along the Russian front.
	www.303rdbg.com /pow-camps.html (4234 words)

	AII POW-MIA WW II Working Group Findings
		The Allied POWs whom the Germans marched west suffered from extreme weather conditions, including subfreezing cold and blizzards, shortages of food and shelter, and from the sheer exertion required in the movement, most of which was by foot.
		But many POWs, especially stragglers, the sick, and escapees, who had been in Stalag Luft III in January 1945, returned to military control after being recovered in small groups or singly, often on the road or in the woods or at a private residence, and not from large masses liberated at Moosburg in April.
		The POW population grew significantly from February to April 1945 as the Germans marched prisoners from camps further east to Stalag III-A. On 7 February for instance, 5,000 American POWs from Stalag III-B, Furstenburg, virtually the entire population of that camp, arrived at Luckenwalde.
	www.aiipowmia.com /wwii/wwiiwkgrp.html (12715 words)

	POW Camps in North Vietnam
		The POWs in the third increment for release by the DRV were moved to the Plantation, and the POWs in the fourth increment were held at the Zoo.
		In a reaction to the Son Tay rescue effort, Farnsworth's U.S. population was transferred to the Plantation POW Camp in Hanoi, in November 1970.
		In January 1973, the camp's existing population was moved to Hoa Lo, and the Plantation became the staging/collection point for the release of the third increment of POWs captured in North Vietnam.
	www.ojc.org /powforum/powcamps.htm (1711 words)

	OK POW Camps
		The major POW camps were concentrated in the sun belt of the United States, in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.
		Escaping from a POW camp was not a serious crime, according to Geneva, and punishment was slight.
		Four POWs that died in OKlahoma at the Camp Gruber POW Camp are buried in the National Cemetery at Ft. Sam Houston, TX.
	rebelcherokee.labdiva.com /powcampinfo.html (2306 words)

	World War Two - Prisoner of War Camps in Japan
		Prisoner of war camps in Japan housed both capture military personnel and civilians who had been in the East before the outbreak of war.
		Camps were encircled with barbed wire or high wooden fencing and those who attempted escape would be executed in front of other prisoners.
		Camp accommodation was generally in barracks and prisoners were given mats to sleep on.
	www.historyonthenet.com /WW2/pow_camps_japan.htm (424 words)

	OkieLegacy - WWII POW camps - Trinidad, Colorado
		Camp Trinidad was one of more than 240 such camps in the United States during the war, local historian Carla Ann Thompson said.
		The camp was a beehive of activity with 330 structures, including 10 guard towers, and its own sewage and water supply systems.
		Their trial records are kept in Washington, D.C. The camp reportedly had some other POW escapes, but all were eventually captured, including one as far east as St. Louis and two in a Colorado haystack, said Roberta Cordova, a Trinidad Historical Society board member and former Trinidad mayor.
	okielegacy.org /WWIIpowcamps/camptrinidad.html (572 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The main camps were generally built to standard specifications: they were military barracks covered by tar paper or corrugated sheet iron; inside were rows of cots and footlockers.
		Consequently, in addition to the base camps, Texas had twenty-two branch camps, some containing as few as thirty-five or forty prisoners, to provide labor to farms and factories located too far from the main POW camps.
		From 1943, when the POWs arrived in large numbers, until the end of the war in 1945, the POWs in Texas picked peaches and citrus fruits, harvested rice, cut wood, baled hay, threshed grain, gathered pecans, and chopped records amounts of cotton.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/qug1.html (1221 words)

	Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society Director
		Michael was the original founder and first Chairman of the Kinkaseki Memorial Committee in 1997, and later the founded the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society, to carry on the work begun by the original committee when it closed down in the spring of 1999.
		In conjunction with the awarding of the MBE to Michael, a POW reunion was held in London on October 9 - 11th and some of the former Taiwan POWs and their families gathered to honour Michael and Tina.
		The principal aim was to find all of the Japanese POW camps on the island, and also as many of the former POW camp survivors as possible.
	www.powtaiwan.org /mbe.htm (925 words)

	POW/MIA (POW)
		The number of known U.S. POWs not repatriated from the Korean War was cited by Hugh M. Milton II, Assistant Secretary of the Army in January, 1954, in a memorandum he wrote four months after the conclusion of operation BIG SWITCH.
		Its unidentified author added that he believed "Manchurian camps house a great many U.S. POWs, and Manchuria is a staging area or collecting point for U.S. POWs." The report is one in a series of eight written at regular intervals during the war by Army intelligence officers attempting to track POW movements.
		The 72-year-old POW told stories of his "life of hell" in North Korea, saying he was subjected to a lifetime of forced labor in the state coal mines.
	www.kalaniosullivan.com /KunsanAB/3rdBW/POWMIA2.html (10948 words)

	List of POW camps in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These are the camps that housed captured members of the enemy armed forces, crews of ships of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft.
		Stalag or Stammlager (base camp) – These were enlisted personnel POW camps.
		Some of these sub-camps were not the traditional POW camps with barbed wire fences and guard towers, but merely accommodation centers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_POW_camps_in_Germany (710 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		Life at Camp Lodi is chronicled in Betty Cowley's new book "Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WWII prisoner-of-war camps." Cowley, a Portage native who now resides in Eau Claire, spent five years researching a hidden past that doesn't appear in history books.
		Cowley found out about the camps through an "old-timer" who told her about a POW camp in Altoona, where she taught a history class.
		German POWs were moved to the United States because it was believed Hitler had a plan to air-drop weapons to prisoners held in England.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter22/in042802wisc.html (1175 words)

	The Cruiser Houston: The POW Camps
		In Bicycle Camp, the men of the Houston were joined by troops from the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, a National Guard unit from Texas (dubbed "the Lost Battalion" because their whereabouts were unknown during World War II).
		In October, the majority of the POWs were taken from Bicycle Camp to Singapore, while the rest were sent to work in various camps throughout Asia.
		The POWs spent several days and nights on these "hell ships" with no room to move and barely any rice to eat, amid men who were now sick with dysentery.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/digital/cruiser/camps.htm (901 words)

	Prisoners of War (POWs) Work in Farm Fields Across Midwest
		Almost all of the camps were in rural areas because they had to be built well away from defense industry plants.
		At first, the POW camps were met with a mixture of fear and fascination.
		In addition, the farmers around the camp were struggling to complete their farm work, and they could see these thousands of idle, apparently docile men sitting in the camps.
	www.livinghistoryfarm.org /farminginthe40s/money_04.html (927 words)

	POW Camps and MIA Issues - Korean War Project
		Korean POW Camp Location Sought: The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Office (DPMO) is seeking information on the location of a POW camp or holding area in North Korea between Pyongyang and the Yalu River named Camp Desoto.
		While Korean War POW Camps were designated numerically ie: Camp 1, Camp 2, etc, by Chinese Volunteers and the North Korean Army, American prisoners often gave the camps a name.
		This part concerned the escorting of a group of POWs from the 3rd Infantry Division, 7th Infantry Division and 1st Marine Division who were captured in the Chosin Reservoir battle norhtward to POW camps.
	www.koreanwar.org /html/pow.htm (4494 words)

	Columbia Military Prison
		The Union POWs appear to be those taken in battle in South Carolina and a large percentage were Naval Officers captured in and around Charleston harbor.
		Llike all other POW Camps, a "deadline" was established by laying wood planks ten feet inside the camp's boundaries.
		On 12 December 1864, Camp Sorghum was deactivated with the remaining POWs (about 500) being moved to a much more secure and hospitable facility, the State Lunatic Asylum (hence the nicknames Camp Lunacy and Camp Asylum), located on the present site of the South Carolina State Hospital on Bull Street.
	www.geocities.com /cmp_csa/index.html (1791 words)

	OK Counties POW Camps/Escapes
		The camp closed Nov. 11, 1945, and the land now is used for the airport and fairgrounds.
		The camp opened Oct. 20, 1944 and held 276 prisoners, reportedly troublemakers from the Ft Sill camp.
		The camp fire department, assisted by military personnel at the camp, quickly extinguished the fire, which damaged about three-fourths of the roof of the building.
	rebelcherokee.labdiva.com /ctypowcamps.html (2755 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft & POW Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The rule in most of the camps was that both "individual" (for a named person, sent and paid for by relatives and containing a mixture of goods) and "bulk" parcels (for general distribution, sent and paid for by the International Red Cross, and containing a supply of a single item) were pooled.
		In many other camps, captured officers were paid an equivalent of their pay in "lagergeld" or internal camp currency, and could buy items such as musical instruments and what few everyday goods which were available.
		As the numbers of airmen increased, this became essential as it was not unknown for the Germans to introduce infiltrators in an attempt to spy on camp operations and escape attempts.
	www.b24.net /pow/greatescape.htm (8576 words)

	World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I
		The tensions were building between Russia and the Allies and the fate of the POWs was uncertain until the 8th Air Force flew into Barth and rescued the POWs in a massive airlift.
		An article citing the famous speech that Col. Spicer gave to his fellow POWs that earned him a death sentence (fortunately the camp was liberated one day before the scheduled sentence was to be imposed!), titled "A Speech Worth Dying For".
		This page, we have a speech written by Stalag Luft I POW Dick Williams, Jr.'s granddaughter, Allison, to her generation about the grandfather she never knew and the gift he and his fellow POWs gave us by losing their freedom in order to secure ours.
	www.merkki.com (2277 words)

	Never Forgotten - The Story of the Taiwan POW's
		This is the story of the Japanese prisoner of war camps on the island of Taiwan (Formosa) during the Second World War and of the men who were interned in them.
		The Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society is committed to finding the locations of the former prisoner of war camps and documenting their history.
		We are happy for material on the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society site to be used for schools or research purposes, provided reference is made to its source and/or the owner.
	www.powtaiwan.org (754 words)

	North Vietnamese POW Camps
		The building on the east side of the compound that housed American POWs was demolished in about 1992 and replaced by a three or four story building that houses offices of the PAVN motion picture institute.
		Two American POWs escaped from the camp, but were recaptured as they tried to make their way down the Red River to the coast.
		In 1965, the facility was transferred temporarily to the Enemy Proselyting Department for use as a POW camp.
	www.nampows.org /nvnpowcamps.html (2989 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft POW Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some 1500 of the POWs, who were not physically able to walk, were sent by train to Stalag Luft I On Feb. 6, with little notice, more than 6,000 US and British airmen began a forced march to the west in subzero weather, for which they were not adequately clothed or shod.
		German POW camps are generally acknowledged to have observed the letter of the law, but were often a world unto themselves; isolated kingdoms, in far off places, where men of cruelty and ill will could do their worst...
		Mistreatment of prisoners in camp and on the Black March, was attributed to Cpls.
	www.b24.net /pow/luft4.htm (4529 words)

	List of POW camps in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Kurt Richard Westphal escaped in August 1945, and was recaptured in Hamburg, Germany in 1954.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_POW_camps_in_the_United_States (339 words)

	POW CAMPS
		There were over 365,000 German prisoners of war detained in American POW Camps from 1942-1945.
		At least twenty such camps existed in South Carolina, including one in Newberry County on the Whitmire Highway near the old CCC Camp.
		We recently learned that Beaufort, SC was the site of a camp which housed both German and Italian POWS.
	www.newberry.k12.sc.us /mchs/pow.html (132 words)

	POW Camps, Cemeteries & Stations
		August 1945 - at the entrance to the track leading to the POW Cemetery at Tamarkan Camp Thailand
		The following page lists all the POW camps, the Cemeteries where POW's were buried and stations of the Thai-Burma Railway from the Burma End, where so many POW's were worked to death.
		This poem was written at Taunzan, Burma in June 1943,but could so readily apply to all camps along the line.
	www.2-26bn.org /pow.htm (231 words)

	POWs in Japan, World War II, POW Camps
		As with all lists, a few camps may be missing but we add as they are found.
		Many camps were destroyed during the war and are not listed yet.
		Alphabetical List of all POW camps in Japan as submitted by Japanese and modified by SCAP office.
	www.mansell.com /pow-index.html (902 words)

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