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.

The POW Camps in California during World War II included:

Angel Island, Fort McDowell, CA (Prisoner of War Processing), located in San Francisco Bay, a California State Park since 1958
Arbuckle, California (branch camp under Camp Beale, CA)
Attorney General Hospital (PWC), Palm Springs, CA
Birmingham General Hospital (PWC), Van Nuys, CA
Byron Hot Springs, near Stockton, CA (restricted listing, interrogation center)
Stockton, CA
Camp Beale, CA 95903, now Beale Air Force Base (base camp, POWs originally buried here were transferred to Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, CA)
Camp Cooke, Lompoc, CA (base camp) (now the Federal Penitentiary at Lompoc) (POWs originally buried here were transferred to Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, CA)
Camp Haan, Riverside, CA
Camp Pendleton, CA 92055
Camp Roberts, San Miguel, CA 93451 (base camp), now a National Guard facility
Camp San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo (CA, now a National Guard facility and US Army and CA Military Academy)
Camp Stoneman, Pittsburg, SF P/E, CA
Corcoran, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Coronado Amphibious Training Base, San Diego, CA
DeWitt General Hospital (PWC), Auburn, CA 95603, hospital closed in 1972, now DeWitt Government Center
Fort Ord, near Monterey, CA (now used by the new CA state university at Monterey, a research center for UC Santa Cruz, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the US Army)
Goleta, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Lakelands (Corcoran), CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Lamont, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Letterman General Hospital (PWC), San Francisco, CA
Mitchell Convalescent Hospital (PWC), Campo, CA 91906, AKA Camp Lockett
Naval Distribution Center, Camp Shoemaker, CA
Naval Training and Distribution Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA
Pomona Ordinance Department, Pomona, CA
Santicoy, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Shafter, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Stockton Ordnance Depot, Stockton, CA
Tagus Ranch, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Tipton, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Tracy QMSD, Tracy, CA
Tulare, CA (branch camp under Camp Cooke, CA)
Windsor, CA (branch camp under Camp Beale, CA)

POWs were buried at Benicia Arsenal Post Cemetery (Benicia), Camp Beale, Camp Cooke, Golden Gate National Cemetery (San Francisco) and the Presidio of Monterey Post Cemetery.

For more information about these camps, please see:
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org
www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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