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 Louisiana during World War II included:

*Arabi, St. Bernard Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Barksdale Field, Bossier City, Bossier Parish, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA), now Barksdale Air Force Base
*Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA)
*Bell City, Calcasieu Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Claibourne (Camp), Forest Hill, Rapides Parish, LA 71430 (base camp)
*Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Edgerly, Calcasieu Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Eunice, Acadia and St. Landry parishes, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Franklin, St. Mary Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Hahnville, St. Charles Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Houma #1, Terrebonne Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Houma #2, Terrebonne Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Innis, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Iowa, Calcasieu Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Jeanerette, Iberia Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Jonesville, Catahoula Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Kaplan, Vermilion Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*LaGarde General Hospital, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA
*Lake Charles Army Air Field, Calcasieu Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA)
*Livingston (Camp), Grant Parish, LA, (base camp) now in Kisatchie National Forest
*Lockport, Lafourche Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Mansfield, De Soto Parish, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA)
*Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Mathews, Lafourche Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*McCain's Gin, Lincoln County, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA)
*Melville, St. Landry Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*New Orleans Port of Embarkation, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA (base camp)
*Plauche (Camp), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA
*Point Ala Hache, Plaquemines Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Polk (Camp), near Leesville, Vernon Parish, LA (base camp)
*Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Port Sulpher, Plaquemines Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Rayne, Acadia Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Ruston (Camp), Ruston, Lincoln Parish, LA 71270 (base camp)
*Simmesport, Avoyelles Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Sulphur, Calcasieu Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*Tallulah, Madison Parish, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA)
*Terrebonne Bay, Bayou and Island, Lafourche Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Thibodeaux, Lafourche Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Welsh, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)
*West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA (branch camp under Ruston, LA)
*White Hall, La Salle Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Woodlawn Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, LA (branch camp under Livingston, LA)
*Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, LA (branch camp under Polk, LA)

Camp Polk had branch camps in TX.

Enemy alien internment camp:
Camp Livingston, Grant Parish, LA

Cemeteries:
Camp Livingston, LA (transferred to Ft. Sam Houston in TX before February 1947)
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Polk, LA (transferred to Ft. Sam Houston in TX after February 1947)
Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, Rapides County, LA

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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