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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 Kentucky during World War II included:
*Bowman Field, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Breckinridge (Camp John C.), Morganfield, Union County, KY (base camp), now Earl C. Clements Job Corps Center
*Campbell (Camp William B.), near Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY (base camp), now Fort Campbell
*Danville, Boyle County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Darnell General Hospital, Danville, Boyle County, KY, later a state hospital, now a prision
*Eminance, Henry County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Frankfort, Franklin County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Knox (Fort Henry), Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties, KY (base camp)
*Lexington, Fayette County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Lexington SD, Fayette County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Louisville, Jefferson County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Maysville, Mason County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Nichols General Hospital, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY
*Owensboro, Daviess County, KY (branch camp of Breckinridge, KY)
*Paris, Bourbon County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Shelbyville, Shelby County, KY (branch camp under Knox, KY)
*Thomas (Fort) Station Hospital, Campbell County, KY
Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Breckinridge, KY (transferred to Ft. Knox after February 1947)
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Campbell, KY (transferred to Clarksville Base, now part of Ft. Campbell, Christian and Trigg Counties, KY and Montgomery and Stewart counties, TN after February 1947)
Fort Knox Post Cemetery (Annex for POW), Ft. Knox, KY
The Fort Knox National Cemetery contains POWs who died in KY and WV.
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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