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 Indiana during World War II included:

*Atterbury (Camp), Edinburgh, Bartholomew, Johnson and Shelby Counties, IN (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 Anthony 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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