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 New York during World War II included:

Camp Popolopen, West Point, NY, later (and earlier) called Camp Buckner
Camp Shanks, Orangeburg, NY
Camp Upton, Yaphank, NY
Fort Jay, New York City, NY
Fort Niagara, Youngstown, NY 14174, now Fort Niagara State Park
Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY, ISU Headquarters, now used by the Coast Guard
Holloran General Hospital, (PWC), Staten Island, NY
Mitchell Field, Long Island, NY
Pine Camp, near Great Bend, NY, now Fort Drum
Sampson Naval Station, Romulus, NY 14541, now Sampson State Park
US Disciplinary Barracks Green Haven, Green Haven, NY
Van Etten, NY

POWs were buried in the Post Cemetery at Ft. Niagara, NY; Pinelawn National Cemetery on Long Island, NY and Camp Pine, NY.
For more information about these camps, please see:
www.globalsecurity.org
www.volksbund.de
www.kriegsgefangen.de
www.denkmalprojekt.org

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