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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 North Carolina during World War II included:
*Ahoskie, Hertford County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Battle (Camp), near New Bern, Craven County, NC (branch camp under Bragg, NC) (former Civilian Conservation Corps camp)
*Bragg (Fort), Cumberland and Hoke Counties, NC 28307 (base camp)
*Butner (Camp), near Durham, Granville County, NC (base camp)
*Butner (Camp) Convalescent Hospital, Durham, Granville County, NC 27509, purchased by the state and became John Umstead Hospital, a mental hospital
*Carthage, Moore County, NC (branch camp)
*Davis (Camp), Holly Ridge, Pender and Onslow County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Edenton, Chowan County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Greensboro, Guilford County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Goldsboro, Wayne County, NC (branch camp under Bragg, NC)
*Hendersonville, Henderson County, NC (branch camp under Forrest, TN)
*MacKall (Camp), Hoffman, Richmond and Scotland County, NC (base camp)
*Monroe, Union County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, Buncombe County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*New Bern, Craven County, NC (branch camp under Butner, sometimes Bragg, NC)
*Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Scotland Neck, Halifax County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Seymour Johnson Air Base, Goldsboro, Wayne County, NC (branch camp under Butner, sometimes Bragg, NC), now Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
*Sutton (Camp), Monroe and Union Counties, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC), land used for camp now developed for other uses
*Whiteville, Columbus County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Williamston, Martin County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
*Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC (branch camp under Butner, sometimes Bragg, NC)
*Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC (branch camp under Butner, NC)
Cemeteries:
Camp Butner Post Cemetery, Camp Butner, NC (transferred to Chattanooga Nat'l Cem. in TN in 1947)
Fort Bragg Post Cemetery, Ft. Bragg, NC
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.denkmalprojekt.org
Fort Bragg Cemetery
www.globalsecurity.org
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.volksbund.de
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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