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 Indiana during World War II included:
Atterbury (Camp), Edinburgh, Bartholomew, Johnson and Shelby Counties, IN (base camp)
Austin, Scott County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury)
Billings General Hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Marion County, IN, built in 1941, closed in March 1946
Construction Detachment, IN (branch camp of Leonard Wood, MO)
Eaton, Delaware County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury)
Fort Wayne (Fort Anthony), Allen County, IN (branch camp under Perry, OH and Knox, KY) (see Scott)
Harrison (Fort Benjamin), Indianapolis, Marion County, IN, becomes Fort Harrison State Park in 1995
Indiana Ordnance Works, Charlestown, Clark County, IN (branch camp under Knox, KY)
Jeffersonville, Clark County, IN (branch camp under Knox, KY)
Morristown, Shelby County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury)
Scott (Camp), Fort Wayne, Allan County, IN (branch camp under Knox, KY, also under Perry, OH) (see Fort Wayne, IN)
Vincennes, Knox County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury)
Windfall, Tipton County, IN (branch camp under Atterbury)
Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Atterbury, IN (16 German and 3 Italian WWII POW burials transferred to Camp Butler National Cemetery in IL in June 1970)
There were 1 base camp, 10 branch camps, 1 hospital, and 1 cemetery in IN. More information in my book titled Prisoner of War Camps Across America and is available in Kindle format on Amazon and in Nook format on Barnes and Noble. The updated version of the book is available at https://www.gentracer.org/milpublications.html
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.indianamilitary.org
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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