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This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is based on weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946). Additional locations based on newspapers, interviews, and other NARA records (at College Park and Regional Archives).
The POW Camps in Alaska during World War II included:
*Excursion Inlet, Haines Borough, AK
Enemy alien internment camp:
Fort Richardson, Anchorage city-borough, AK
Cemeteries:
Ft. Richardson, Anchorage city-borough, AK (235 Japanese burials), Elmendorf AFB now occupies the original (1940) site while Ft. Richardson moved to its current site, 8 km north of Anchorage in 1950.
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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