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 Alabama during World War II included:
Abbeville, Henry County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Aliceville (Camp), Pickens County, AL (base camp)
Andalusia, Covington County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Chatom, Washington County, AL (branch camp under Shelby, MS)
Clanton, Chilton County, AL (branch camp under McClellan)
Clio, Barbour County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Daleville, Dale County, AL (branch camp under McCain, MS)
Dothan, Houston County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Elba, Coffee County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Evergreen, Conecuh County, AL (branch camp under McClellan)
Foley, Baldwin County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Geneva, Geneva County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Greenville, Butler County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Huntsville Arsenal, Huntsville, Madison County, AL (branch camp under Forrest, TN), became Redstone Arsenal in 1950, home of the new rocket and space program
Jackson, Clarke County, AL (branch camp under Shelby, MS)
Loxley, Baldwin County, AL (branch camp under Shelby, MS)
Luverne, Crenshaw County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
McClellan (Fort George B.), near Anniston, Calhoun County, AL (base camp, now state land)
Montgomery H & R Pt., Montgomery County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Northington General Hospital, Tuscalooosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL (branch camp under Aliceville, sometimes under McClellan)
Oneonta, Blount County, AL (branch camp under Forrest, TN)
Opelika (Camp), Opelika, Lee County, AL (base camp, sometimes under Benning, GA), memorabilia in the Museum of East Alabama
Rucker (Camp), Dale County, AL (base camp)
Sibert (Camp), Gadsden, Etowah County, AL (branch camp under McClellan)
Troy, Pike County, AL (branch camp under Rucker)
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL (branch camp under Aliceville, AL, sometimes McClellan)
Cemeteries:
Aliceville, AL (German WWII POW burials transferred to Fort McClellan)
Fort McClellan, AL. The military installation has closed. The cemetery is now in the care of the VA National Cemetery Administration. Details from Italian Col. Antonio Lotito. Link thanks to Marianne Venegoni. The cemetery contains 26 German WWII POWs who died in AL and GA, plus those transferred from Aliceville and Italian POW burials transferred from MS.
There were 4 base camps, 21 branch camps, 1 hospital, and 2 cemeteries in AL.
More information with citations to sources 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
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