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 Georgia during World War II included:
Americus, Sumter County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Ashburn, Turner County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Atlanta Army Service Forces Depot, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Atlanta Ordnance Depot, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Axson, Atkinson County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Bainbridge Army Air Field, Bainbridge, Decatur County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Battey (Robert) General Hospital, Rome, Floyd County, GA (branch camp under Oglethorpe, GA) now Battey State Hospital
Benning (Fort Henry L.), Columbus, Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, GA (base camp)
Benning (Fort) Regional Hospital, Columbus, Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, GA
Blakely, Early County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Brunswick, Glynn County, GA (branch camp under Benning, see Glynco)
Chatham Army Air Field, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, sometimes Benning), now a portion of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
Daniel Field, Augusta, Richmond County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler), now Daniel Field Airport
Dublin, Laurens County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Fargo, Clinch County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Finney (John M. T.) General Hospital, Thomasville, Thomas County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Fitzgerald, Ben Hill and Irwin Counties, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Glynco Naval Air Station, Glynn County, GA (branch camp under Stewart, sometimes Benning, see Brunswick)
Gordon (Fort John B.), Augusta, Richmond County, GA (base camp), now Fort Gordon Garrison
Griffin, Spalding County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Hunter Field, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (branch camp under Stewart)
Jesup, Wayne County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (near the Naval Air Station in Atlanta), formerly under Camp Gordon
Monticello, Jasper County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Moody Field, Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA (branch camp under Benning) (see Valdosta)
Oglethorpe (Fort), Catoosa County, GA (base camp)
Oliver General Hospital, Richmond County, Augusta, Richland County, GA
Perry, Houston and Peach Counties, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Reidsville, Tattnall County, GA (branch camp under Stewart)
Sandersville, Washington County, GA (branch camp under Wheeler)
Savannah ASF Depot, Chatham County, GA (branch camp under Stewart)
Spence Field, Moultrie, Colquitt County, GA (branch camp under Benning), later Spence Air Base
Statesboro, Bulloch County, GA (branch camp under Stewart)
Stewart (Camp), near Hinesville, Liberty County, GA (base camp), now Fort Stewart
Stewart (Camp) Regional Hospital, near Hinesville, Liberty County, GA
Swainsboro, Emanuel County, GA (branch camp under Stewart)
Sylvania, Screven County, GA (branch camp under Stewart)
Thomasville, Thomas County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Tifton, Tift County, GA (branch camp under Benning, sometimes a base camp)
Toccoa, Stephens County, GA (branch camp under Croft, SC)
Turner Field, Albany, Dougherty County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA (branch camp under Benning, GA) (see Moody Field)
Wadley, Jefferson County, GA (branch camp under Gordon)
Waycross, Ware County, GA (branch camp under Benning)
Waynesboro, Burke County, GA (branch camp under Benning, sometimes Wheeler)
Wheeler (Camp), Macon, Bibb County, GA (base camp) (has branch camps in GA and SC)
Enemy alien internment camps:
Oglethorpe (Fort), Catloosa County, GA (alien internment camp during summer 1942) (German)
Screven (Fort) INS Detention Facility, GA (German, Italian)
Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Camp Gordon, GA, now Fort Gordon, an active military installation. The cemetery contains burials for 21 German and 1 Italian WWII POWs who died in GA and SC.
Fort Benning Post Cemetery, Ft. Benning, GA, an active military installation.This cemetery contains burials of 35 German and 8 Italian WWII POWs who died in GA, AL, and FL, plus those transferred from MS.
There were 6 base camps, 33 branch camps, 6 hospitals, 2 internment locations, and 2 cemeteries in GA. More information and source citations 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 www.gentracer.org/milpublications.html
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