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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 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)
*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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