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 Idaho during World War II included:
Aberdeen, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Blackfoot, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Emmett, Gem County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Farragut (David) Naval Training Station, Athol, Kootenai County, ID (base camp), now Farragut State Park
Filer, Twin Falls County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Fort Hall, Bannock and Bingham Counties, ID, Indian reservation, part of Pocatello (branch camp under Rupert)
Franklin, Franklin County, ID (branch camp under Rupert) (see Nampa)v
Holly Lake (Camp), Minidoka County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Jerome, Jerome County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Marsing, Owyhee County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Nampa, Canyon County, ID (branch camp under Rupert) (see Franklin)
Paul, Minidoka County, ID (see Rupert)
Payette, Payette County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Pocatello, Bannock County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Preston, Franklin County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Rigby, Jefferson County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Rupert (Camp), Rupert, Minidoka County, ID (base camp)
Shelley, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Sugar City, Madison County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Thomas, Bingham County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Upper Deer Flat, Canyon County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Wilder, Canyon County, ID (branch camp under Rupert)
Enemy alien internment camps:
Kooskia Internment Camp, Kooskia, Idaho County, ID (Japanese)
Minidoka, Minidoka County, ID (Japanese)
Cemeteries:
Prisoner of War Cemetery, Rupert, ID (6 German WWII POW burials transferred to Golden Gate National Cemetery in California.)
There were 2 base camps, 19 branch camps, 2 internment locations, and 1 cemetery in ID. More information in my latest book titled Prisoner of War Camps Across America and is available in Kindle format atAmazon. The updated version of the book is available at https://www.gentracer.org/milpublications.html
Also, my book American Prisoner of War Camps in Idaho and Utah is available at Amazon.
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