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 Oklahoma during World War II included:

Alva (Camp), Woods County, OK (base camp)
Ardmore Army Air Base, Carter County, OK (branch camp under Howze, TX), now Ardmore Municipal Airport
Bixby, Tulsa and Wagoner Counties, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
Bordon General Hospital, Chickasha, Grady County, OK (base camp)
Caddo, Bryan County, OK (branch of Stringtown)
Chickasha, Grady County, OK (branch camp under Alva)
El Reno, US Federal Reformatory, Canadian County, OK, now El Reno Federal Reformatory (prison)
Eufaula, McIntosh County, OK (at the National Guard Armory, probably a temporary camp found only in interviews.
Glennan (James D.) General Hospital (PWC), Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, OK (branch under Gruber, later a base camp), August 1944 to July 1945 (reverted to a hospital for American soldiers) (see POW General Hospital #1)
Gruber (Camp), near Muskogee, Muskogee County, OK (base camp), now National Guard
Haskell, Muskogee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
Hickory, Murray County, OK (branch camp under Howze, TX)
Hobart, Kiowa County, OK (branch camp under Sill)
Kansas, Seminole County, OK
Konawa, Seminole County, OK (branch under Reno)
Madill POW Camp, Madill, Marshall County, OK
McAlester (Camp), McAlester, Pittsburg County, OK (formerly a branch camp under Gruber, base camp)
Morris, Okmulgee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
Okemah, Okfuskee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
Pauls Valley, Garvin County, OK (branch camp under Chaffee, AR)
Porter, Wagoner County, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
POW General Hospital #1, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, OK (see Glennan)
Powell, Marshall County, OK (branch camp under Howze, TX)
Pryor (Camp), Pryor, Mayes County, OK (base camp)
Reno (Fort), near El Reno, Canadian County, OK (base camp) In 1948 Fort Reno was transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which in coordination with Oklahoma A&M College (later Oklahoma State University) established a Livestock and Forage Research Center there that same year.
Rogers (Will) Field, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK (branch camp under Reno), now Will Rogers World Airport
Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, OK (probably a temporary camp under Chaffee, AR found only in interviews and newspaper reports of escapes.)
Seminole, Seminole County, OK (branch of McAlester in Municipal building)
Sill (Fort), one of three camps at the Fort, the others housing Enemy Aliens and a stockade for US Soldiers.
Stillwell, Adair County, OK (branch of Chaffee)
Stringtown, Atoka County, OK (at Stringtown Correctional Facility, later an Enemy Alien Internment Camp).
Tipton, Tillman County, OK (branch camp under Sill)
Tishomingo. Johnston County, OK (branch camp under Howze, TX)
Tonkawa, Kay County, OK (first a base camp, later a branch camp under Alva)
Waynoka, Woods County, OK (branch camp under Alva)
Wetumka, Hughes County, OK (branch camp under Gruber)
Wewoka, Seminole County, OK (in NYA Biulding on the fairgrounds, branch of McAlester).

Enemy alien internment camps:
Alva (Camp), Woods County, OK (had chits for internees, no note of nationality)
McAlester (Camp), McAlester, Pittsburg County, OK (German, Italian, and Japanese)
Sill (Fort), near Lawton, Comanche County, OK (German, Japanese)
Stringtown, Atoka County, OK (German, Italian, Japanese, and Misc.)

Cemeteries:
Camp Gruber, OK (transferred to Ft. Sam Houston in TX after February 1947)
Fort Reno Post Cemetery, Ft. Reno, OK (The Fort Reno Post Cemetery contains POWs who died in OK and AR.)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Ft. Sill, OK, now Fort Sill National Cemetery
Prisoner of War Cemetery (Calvary Cemetery), McAlester, OK, a Catholic facility

The Fort Reno National Cemetery contains POWs who died in OK and AR.

There were 7 base camps, 27 branch camps, 2 hospitals, 1 prison, 4 internment locations, and 5 cemeteries in OK. 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

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