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 Arkansas during World War II included:

*Altheimer, Jefferson County, AR (branch camp under Monticello, AR)
*Army & Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Garland County, AR, now a national park
*Bassett, Mississippi County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Blytheville Army Air Field, Mississippi County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR), became Eaker Air Force base
*Chaffee (Camp Adna R.), Ft. Smith, Sebastian County, AR (base camp), called Fort Chaffee since 1956, National Guard
*Crawfordsville, Crittenden County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Dermott (Camp), Dermott, Chicot County, AR (base camp)
*Earle, Crittenden County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Elaine, Phillips County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Eudora, Chicot County, AR
*Grady, Lincoln County, AR (branch camp under Monticello, AR)
*Grider Field, Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, AR (branch camp under Dermott, AR), now a public airport
*Harrisburg, Poinsett County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Helena-West Helena, Phillips County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Hot Springs, Garland County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR) (former Civilian Conservation Corps Camp)
*Hughes, St. Francis County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Jerome, Drew County, AR (base camp), Japanese internment camp from October of 1942 to June of 1944. Became a German POW camp in October 1944.
*Jonesboro, Craighead County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Keiser, Mississippi County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Knobel, Clay County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Lake Village, Chicot County, AR (branch camp under Dermott, AR)
*Luxora, Mississippi County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Magnolia, Columbia County, AR (branch camp under Monicello, AR)
*Marked Tree, Poinsett County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Monticello (Camp), Monticello, Drew County, AR (base camp)
*Murfreesboro, Pike County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Osceola, Mississippi County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Pine Bluff Arsenal, near Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, AR, now used by the US Army Corp of Engineers
*Robinson (Camp Joseph T.), North Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR (base camp)
*Rohwer, Desha County, Arkansas (Formerly Rohwer Recreation Center, turned into Rohwer Camp in November 1944)
*Russellville, Pope County, AR (branch camp under Chaffee, AR)
*Simsboro, Crittenden County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Springdale, Washington and Benton Counties, AR (branch camp under Chaffee, AR)
*St. Charles, Arkansas County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Stuttgart, Arkansas County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Turrell, Crittenden County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Victoria, Mississippi County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR)
*Wynne, Cross County, AR (branch camp under Joseph T. Robinson, AR, 300 to 500 Germans)

Camp Chaffee has branch camps in OK.

POW Companies 7, 15, 14, and 16 in Monticello AR were all deemed undesirable. That sometimes meant Fascist supporters of Mussolini, or members of Fascist groups (including youth groups while growing up in Mussolini's Italy, or men who served in the Italian campaign in Spain as German allies, or men who supported Italy's monarchy (royalists), or the highest ranking military officers.

Enemy alien internment camps:
Jerome Relocation Center, Chicot and Drew County, AR, held Japanese civilians from October of 1942 to June of 1944
Rohwer, Desha County, AR, held Japanese civilians from September 1942 to November 1944. Only the cemetery remains.

Cemeteries:
Camp Monticello, AR (transferred to Ft. Reno Nat'l Cem. in OK before February 1947)
Hot Springs Cemetery, AR (23 WWI German burials tranferrered to Chattanooga National Cemetery in TN)
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Chaffee, AR (transferred to Ft. Sam Houston Nat'l Cem. in TX after February 1947)
Prisoner of War Camp, Camp Joseph T. Robinson, AR (transferred to Ft. Sam Houston Nat'l Cem. in TX after February 1947)

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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