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 Iowa during World War II included:

*Algona (Camp), Algona, Kossuth County, IA (base camp)
*Audobon, Audobon County, IA (branch camp under Clarinda, IA)
*Charles City, Floyd County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Clarinda (Camp), Clarinda, Page County, IA (base camp) (German POWs)
*Clarinda (Camp), Clarinda, Page County, IA (base camp) (Japanese POWs)
*Clinton, Clinton County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Eldora, Hardin County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Muscatine, Muscatine County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA) POWs worked at the Heinz catsup factory and lived at the fish hatchery
*Onawa, Monona County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Schick General Hospital, Clinton, Clinton County, IA (branch camp under Weingarten, MO)
*Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Shenandoah, Fremont and Page Counties, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Tabor, Fremont and Mills Counties, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Toledo, Tama County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)
*Wapello, Louisa County, IA (branch camp under Clarinda, IA)
*Waverly, Bremer County, IA (branch camp under Algona, IA)

Camp Algona had branch camps in MN, ND, and SD.

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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