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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 Oregon during World War II included:
Abbot (Camp Henry L.), Sunriver, Deschutes County, OR (branch camp under Rupert, ID), now Sunriver Resort stands in it's place
Adair (Camp Henry R.), Corvallis, Benton and Linn Counties, OR (base camp, formerly a branch camp under Hill Field, UT)
Athena, Umatilla County, OR (branch camp under White)
Bend, Deschutes County, OR (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
Independence, Polk and Marion Counties, OR (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
Milton-Freewater, OR (branch camp) had 2 barracks (20x50) which could house 80 men each. 40X135 mess hall, 14 guard huts 12x12 and other buildings. Privately owned at this time. They worked at Rogers Pea Cannery in Milton.
Nyssa, Malheur County, OR (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
Pendleton, Umatilla County, OR (branch camp under Lewis, WA)
Salem, Polk and Marion Counties, OR (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
Squaw Creek, Scotland County, OR (branch camp under Lewis, WA)
Stanfield, Umatilla County, OR (branch camp under White)
Umatilla Ordnance Depot, Umatilla County, OR (base camp) (now Army Depot)
Vale, Malheur County, OR (branch camp under Rupert, ID)
White (Camp)White (Camp), near Medford, Jackson County, OR (base camp)
Enemy alien internment camps:
Portland, Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, OR (assembly center) (German, Japanese)
Cemeteries:
Camp White, OR (2 German burials transferred to Vancouver Barracks Post Cemetery, WA)
There were 3 base camps, 10 branch camps, 1 internment location, and 1 cemetery in OR. More information in my book, American Prisoner of War Camps in Washington and Oregon, available at Amazon.com.
Also my book, Prisoner of War Camps Across America, is in Kindle format on Amazon.
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de
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