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 Indiana during World War II included:

*Atterbury (Camp), Edinburgh, Bartholomew, Johnson and Shelby Counties, IN 46124 (base camp, POWs originally buried here were transferred to Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, IL)
*Austin, Scott County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury, IN)
*Benjamin Harrison (Fort), Indianapolis, Marion County, IN, becomes Fort Harrison State Park in 1995
*Billings General Hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Marion County, IN, built in 1941, closed in March 1946
*Construction Detachment, IN (branch camp of Leonard Wood, MO)
*Eaton, Delaware County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury, IN)
*Fort Wayne, Allen County, IN (branch camp under Perry, OH)
*Indiana Ordnance Works, Charlestown, Clark County, IN (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Jeffersonville, Clark County, IN (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Morristown, Shelby County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury, IN)
*Scott, IN (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Vincennes, Knox County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury, IN)
*Windfall, Tipton County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury, IN)

Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Atterbury, IN (transferred to Camp Butler Nat'l Cem. in IL in June 1970)

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.indianamilitary.org

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