This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is still being developed with new locations added as we work through the weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946).
The POW Camps in Utah during World War II included:
Bushnell (George E.) General Hospital, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT
Clearfield Naval Supply Depot, Clearfield, Davis County, UT (base camp)
Deseret Chemical Weapons Depot, Tooele, Tooele County, UT, (ISU)
Douglas (Fort Stephen A.), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT (base camp)
Dugway Proving Grounds, Dugway, Tooele County, UT (ISU)
Hill Field (SCU 1935), Weber and Davis Counties, UT (base camp)
Kearns AAF Regional Station Hospital, Kearns, Salt Lake County, UT
Logan, Cache County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot)
Ogden Arsenal, Ogden, Weber County, UT (ISU)
Ogden ASF Depot, Ogden, Weber County, UT (base camp)
Orem, Utah County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot)
Salina, Sevier County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot) (former CCC camp)
Tooele Ordnance Depot, Tooele, Tooele County, UT (base camp) (see Warner, UT)
Tremonton, Box Elder County, UT (branch camp under Ogden ASF Depot)
Warner (Camp), Tooele Ordnance Depot, Tooele, Tooele County, UT (base camp) (see Tooele, UT)
Enemy alien internment camps:
Antelope Springs, Millard County, UT (Japanese)
Moab Isolation Center, Dalton Wells, Grand County, UT (Japanese)
Salt Lake City INS Detention Facility, Salt Lake County, UT (Italian)
Topaz, Millard County, UT (Japanese)
Cemeteries:
Fort Douglas Post Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT, 1 Japanese, 20 German and 12 Italian WWII POW burials, plus 2 WWI POW and 19 WWI civilian enemy alien burials, maintained by the VA National Cemetery Administration.
There were 14 camps, including 5 base camps, 7 branch camps, 2 hospitals, 5 Italian Service Units, 4 internment locations, and 1 cemetery in UT. More information and source citations are in my book titled Prisoner of War Camps Across America and is available in Kindle format on Amazon. The updated version of the book is available at www.gentracer.org/milpublications.html
Also, my book American Prisoner of War Camps in Idaho and Utah is available on Amazon.
Links to other sites about Prisoners of War in Utah include:
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