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 Massachusetts during World War II included:

*Andrews (Fort Leonard), Peddocks Island, Hull, Plymouth County, MA
*Boston Port of Embarkation, Boston, Suffolk County, MA (base camp)
*Cushing General Hospital, Framingham, Middlesex County, MA, specializing in neurosurgical and plastic work as well as ophthalmologic surgery
*Devens (Fort Charles), Ayer, Middlesex and Worchester Counties, MA (base camp)
*Edwards (Camp Clarence), Bourne, Barstable County, MA (branch camp under Devens, MA) now Fort, part of Massachusetts Militarty Reservation
*Lovell (Joseph) General Hospital, Fort Devens, Middlesex and Worchester Counties, MA
*McKay (Camp), Boston, Suffolk County, MA
*Standish (Camp Myles), Boston, Suffolk County, MA (base camp)
*Strong (Fort), Long Island, MA (base camp)
*Waltham Regional Hospital, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA
*Westover Field, Hampden and Hampshire Counties, MA (base camp), now Westover Joint Air Reserve Base and Westover Metropolitan Airport; the largest Air Reserve Base in the world

Enemy alien internment camp:
Boston, Suffolk County, MA (temporary detention station)

Cemeteries:
Fort Devens Post Cemetery, Ft. Devens, MA

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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