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 Georgia during World War II included:

•Americus, Sumter County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Ashburn, Turner County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Atlanta Army Service Forces Depot, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Atlanta Ordnance Depot, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Axson, Atkinson County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Bainbridge Army Air Field, Bainbridge, Decatur County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Battey (Robert) General Hospital, Rome, Floyd County, GA (branch camp under Oglethorpe, GA) now Battey State Hospital
•Benning (Fort Henry L.), Columbus, Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, GA (base camp)
•Benning (Fort) Regional Hospital, Columbus, Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, GA
•Blakely, Early County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Brunswick, Glynn County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Chatham Army Air Field, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, sometimes Benning, GA), now a portion of the Savannah/Hilton head Internation Airport
•Daniel Field, Augusta, Richmond County, GA, now Daniel Field Airport
•Dublin, Laurens County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Fargo, Clinch County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Finney (John M. T.) General Hospital, Thomasville, Thomas County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Fitzgerald, Ben Hill and Irwin Counties, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Glynco Naval Air Station, Glynn County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, sometimes Benning, GA)
•Gordon (Fort John B.), Augusta, Richmond County, GA (base camp), now Fort Gordon Garrison
•Griffin, Spalding County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Hunter Field, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, GA)
•Jesup, Wayne County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (near or by the Naval Air Station in Atlanta), formerly Camp Gordon
•Layercross, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Monticello, Jasper County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Moody Field, Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Oglethorpe (Fort), Catoosa County, GA (base camp), alien internment camp during summer 1942
•Oliver General Hospital, Richmond County, Augusta, Richland County, GA
•Perry, Houston and Peach Counties, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Reidsville, Tattnall County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, GA)
•Sandersville, Washington County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler, GA)
•Savannah, Chatham County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, GA)
•Spence Field, Moultrie, Colquitt County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA), later Spence Air Base
•Statesboro, Bulloch County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, GA)
•Stewart (Camp), near Hinesville, Liberty County, GA (base camp), now Fort Stewart
•Stewart (Camp) Regional Hospital, near Hinesville, Liberty County, GA
•Swainsboro, Emanuel County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, GA)
•Sylvania, Screven County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, GA)
•Thomasville, Thomas County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Tifton, Tift County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Toccoa, Stephens County, GA (branch camp under Croft, SC)
•Turner Field, Albany, Dougherty County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Wadley, Jefferson County, GA (branch camp under Gordon, GA)
•Waycross, Ware County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Waynesboro, Burke County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA)
•Wheeler (Camp), Macon, Bibb County, GA (base camp)

Enemy alien internment camps:
•Oglethorpe (Fort), Catloosa County, GA (alien internment camp during summer 1942) (German)
•Screven (Fort) INS Detention Facility, GA (Italian)

Cemeteries:
•Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Gordon, GA, now Fort Gordon, an active military installation.
•Fort Benning Post Cemetery, Ft. Benning, GA, an active military installation.

For more information about these camps, please see:

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