This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is still being developed with new locations added as we work through the weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946).

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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