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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 Utah during World War II included:
*Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT 84302 (300 Germans, 65 German patients, 15 Italian patients)
*Clearfield Naval Supply Depot, Clearfield, Davis County, UT 84015 (base camp, 500 Germans)
*Deseret Chemical Weapons Depot, Tooele, Tooele County, UT, (base camp, 100 Italians, later ISU)
*Douglas (Fort), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT 84113 (base camp, 200 Italians)
*Dugway Proving Grounds, Dugway, Tooele County, UT 84022 (branch camp under Camp Warner, 100 Italians, later ISU)
*Hill Field (SCU 1935), Weber and Davis Counties, UT 84056 (base camp, 800 Italians), now Hill Air Force Base
*Kearns AAF Regional Station Hospital, Kearns, Salt Lake County, UT (German patients from Salina, UT)
*Logan, Cache County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot, 250 Germans)
*Ogden Arsenal, Ogden, Weber County, UT (base camp, 600 ISU)
*Ogden ASF Depot, Ogden, Weber County, UT (base camp, 3800 Germans, 1800 ISU)
*Ogden ASF Depot Station Hospital, Ogden, Weber County, UT (German and Italian patients)
*Orem, Utah County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot, 250 Germans)
*Salina, Sevier County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot, sometimes Rupert, ID, 250 Germans) (former Civilian Conservation Corps Camp)
*Tremonton, Box Elder County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot, 300 Germans)
*Warner (Camp), Tooele Ordnance Depot, Tooele, Tooele County, UT 84074 (base camp, 1000 Italians, later ISU)
Enemy alien internment camp:
Antelope Springs, Millard County, UT (Japanese) (former Civilian Conservation Corps camp)
Moab Isolation Center, Dalton Wells, Grand County, UT (Japanese) (former Civilian Conservation Corps camp)
Topaz, Millard County, UT
Cemeteries:
Fort Douglas Post Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT (There is also a monument at the graves of the WW I German POWs who are buried there.)
Links to other sites about Prisoners of War in Utah include:
German Prisoners of War in Utah Photos
Italian Prisoners of War in Utah
Italian Prisoners of War in Utah Photos
Italian Service Unit Photos
Japanese Prisoners of War in Utah
Utah POWs
WW I German Prisoners of War in Utah
WW II German Prisoners of War in Utah
www.denkmalprojekt.org
Ft. Douglas Cemetery
www.globalsecurity.org
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.volksbund.de
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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