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 Arizona during World War II included:

*Buckeye #1, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 530 Germans)
*Buckeye #2, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 530 Germans)
*California/Arizona Manuever Area (CAMA), Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Imperial and Riverside Counties, CA, Yuma, La Paz, Maricopa, and Mohave Counties, AZ and Clark County, NV (branch camp under Florence, AZ, 800 Italians)
*Casa Grande #1, Pinal County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 500 Germans)
*Casa Grande #2, Pinal County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 450 Germans)
*Continental, Pima County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 150 Germans)
*Cortaro, Pima County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 300 Germans)
*Cotton Center, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Panago Park, AZ, 300 Germans)
*Davis-Monthan Army Air Base, Tucson, Pima County, AZ (base camp, 400 Germans), now Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
*Duncan, Graham County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, sometimes Florence, AZ, 200 Germans)
*Eleven Mile Corner, Pinal County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 300 Germans)
*Eloy #1, Pinal County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, sometimes Florence, AZ, 530 Germans)
*Eloy #2, Pinal County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, sometimes Florence, AZ, 1078 Germans)
*Florence (Camp), Florence, Pinal County, AZ (base camp, 5500 Germans), now Arizona State Prison
*Imperial Dam, Yuma, Yuma County, AZ (base camp, ISU)
*Litchfield Park, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 850 Germans)
*Luke (Frank) Field, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 225 Germans), now Luke Air Force Base
*Maricopa, Pinal County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 315 Germans)
*McCowell Road, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, AZ, 120 Italians)
*Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 350 Germans)
*Mt. Graham, Graham County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 250 Germans)
*Navajo Ordinance Depot, Bellemont, Coconino County, AZ (base camp, 250 Germans)
*Parker, La Paz County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 175 Germans)
*Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Haan, CA)
*Pima Prisoner of War Camp, Papago Park, Maricopa County, AZ (base camp, 1800 Germans), bought by the City of Phoenix in 1959
*Queens Creek, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 350 Germans)
*Roll, Yuma County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, sometimes Florence)
*Safford, Graham County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, 150 Germans)
*Tolleson, Maricopa County, AZ (branch camp under Florence, AZ, 293 Italians)
*Yuma, Yuma County, AZ (branch camp under Pima, 350 Germans)
*Yuma Test Station, Yuma, Yuma County, AZ (base camp, 650 ISU)

Enemy alien internment camps:
Camp Florence, Florence, Pinal County, AZ 85232 (from June 1942 to December 1943)
Catalina Federal Honor Camp, Pima County, AZ
Gila River, Pinal County, AZ
Leupp Isolation Center, Coconino County, AZ (formerly an Indian boarding school)
Mayer, Yavapai County, AZ (assembly center)
Poston, La Paz County, AZ

Cemeteries:
Camp Florence, AZ (transferred to Ft. Bliss, TX in June 1946)

For more information about some of these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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