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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 Idaho during World War II included:

*Aberdeen, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Blackfoot, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Emmett, Gem County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Farragut (David) Naval Training Station, Athol, Kootenai County, ID, now Farragut State Park
*Filer, Twin Falls County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Fort Hall, Bannock and Bingham Counties, ID, indian reservation, part of Pocatello
*Franklin, Franklin County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Gooding, Gooding County, ID
*Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Marsing, Owyhee County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Nampa, Canyon County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Paul, Minidoka County, ID
*Payette, Payette County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Pocatello, Bannock County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Preston, Franklin County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Rigby, Jefferson County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Rupert (Camp), Rupert, Minidoka County, ID (base camp) (POWs originally buried here were transferred to Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, CA)
*Shelley, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Sugar City, Madison County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Thomas, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Upper Deer Flat, Canyon County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
*Wilder, Canyon County, ID (branch camp under Rupert, ID)

Camp Rupert had branch camps in MT and OR.

Enemy alien internment camp:
Kooskia Internment Camp, Kooskia, Idaho County, ID
Minidoka, Minidoka County, ID

Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Rupert, ID (transferred to Golden Gate Nat'l Cem. in CA)

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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