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 Oklahoma during World War II included:

•Alva (Camp), Woods County, OK (base camp)
•Ardmore Army Air Base, Carter County, OK (branch camp under Howse, TX), now Ardmore Municipal Airport
•Bixby, Tulsa and Wagoner Counties, OK (branch camp under Gruber, OK)
•Bordon General Hospital, Chickasha, Grady County, OK
•Chickasha, Grady County, OK (branch camp under Alva, OK)
•El Reno, US Federal Reformatory, Canadian County, OK, now El Reno Federal Reformatory
•Glennan (James D.) General Hospital (PWC), Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, OK (branch under Gruber, OK, was a base camp), August 1944 to July 1945 (reverted to a hospital for American soldiers)
•Gruber (Camp), near Muskogee, Muskogee County, OK (base camp), now national guard
•Haskell, Muskogee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber, OK)
•Hickory, Murray County, OK (branch camp under Howse, TX)
•Hobart, Kiowa County, OK (branch camp under Sill, OK)
•Lindsay, Garvin County, OK
•Madill POW Camp, Madill, Marshall County, OK
•McAlester (Camp), McAlester, Pittsburg County, OK (formerly a branch camp under Gruber, OK, base camp)
•Morris, Okmulgee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber, OK)
•Okemah, Okfuskee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber, OK)
•Pauls Valley, Garvin County, OK (branch camp under Chaffee, AR)
•Porter, Wagoner County, OK (branch camp under Gruber, OK)
•POW General Hospital #1, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, OK
•Powell, Marshall County, OK (branch camp under Howse, TX)
•Pryor (Camp), Pryor, Mayes County, OK
•Reno (Fort), near El Reno, Canadian County, OK (base camp)
•Rogers (Will) Field, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK (branch camp under Reno, OK), now Will Rogers World Airport
•Sill (Fort), near Lawton, Comanche County, OK (base camp)
•Stillwell, Adair County, OK (branch camp under Chaffee, AR)
•Stringtown, Atoka County, OK
•Tipton, Tillman County, OK (branch camp under Sill, OK)
•Tishomingo. Johnston County, OK (branch camp under Howse, TX)
•Tonkawa, Kay County, OK (first a base camp, later a branch camp under Alva, OK)
•Waynoka, Woods County, OK (branch camp under Alva, OK)
•Wetumka, Hughes County, OK (branch camp under Gruber, OK)

Enemy alien internment camps:
•McAlester (Camp), McAlester, Pittsburg County, OK (German, Italian, and Japanese)
•Sill (Fort), near Lawton, Comanche County, OK (Japanese)
•Stringtown, Atoka County, OK (German, Italian, Japanese, and Misc.)

Cemeteries:
•Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Gruber, OK (transferred to Ft. Sam Houston in TX after February 1947)
•Prisoner of War Cemetery (Calvary Cemetery), McAlester, OK, a Catholic facility
•Fort Reno Post Cemetery, Ft. Reno, OK (The Fort Reno Post Cemetery contains POWs who died in OK and AR.) In 1948 Fort Reno was transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which in coordination with Oklahoma A&M College (later Oklahoma State University) established a Livestock and Forage Research Center there that same year.
•Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Ft. Sill, OK, now Fort Sill National Cemetery

The Fort Reno National Cemetery contains POWs who died in OK and AR.

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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