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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 Alabama during World War II included:
*Abbeville, Henry County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Aliceville (Camp), Aliceville, Pickens County, AL (base camp)
*Andalusia, Covington County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Chatom, Washington County, AL (branch camp under Shelby, MS)
*Clanton, Chilton County, AL (branch camp under McClellan, AL)
*Clio, Barbour County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Daleville, Dale County, AL (branch camp under McCain, MS)
*Dothan, Houston County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Elba, Coffee County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Evergreen, Conecuh County, AL (branch camp under McClellan, AL)
*Foley, Baldwin County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Geneva, Geneva County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Greenville, Butler County, AL (branch camp under Camp Rucker, AL)
*Huntsville Arsenal, Huntsville, Madison County, AL (branch camp under Forrest, TN), became Redstone Arsenal in 1950, home of the new rocket and space program
*Jackson, Clarke County, AL (branch camp under Shelby, MS)
*Loxley, Baldwin County, AL (branch camp under Shelby, MS)
*Luverne, Crenshaw County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*McClellan (Fort George B.), near Anniston, Calhoun County, AL, (base camp, now state land)
*Montgomery H & R Pt., Montgomery County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Northington General Hospital, Tuscalooosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL (branch camp under McClellan, AL)
*Oneonta, Blount County, AL (branch camp under Forrest, TN)
*Opelika (Camp), Opelika, Lee County, AL (base camp), memorabilia in the East Alabama Museum
*Rucker (Camp), Dale County, AL, now Fort Rucker (base camp)
*Sibert (Camp), Gadsden, Etowah County, AL (branch camp under McClellan, AL)
*Troy, Pike County, AL (branch camp under Rucker, AL)
*Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL (branch camp under Aliceville, AL)
Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Ft. McClellan, AL
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.denkmalprojekt.org
Fort McClellan Cemetery
www.globalsecurity.org
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.volksbund.de
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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