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 Oklahoma during World War II included:

Bordon General Hospital, Chickasha, OK
Camp Alva, OK (base camp)
Camp Gruber, near Muskogee, OK
Camp McAlester, McAlester, OK 74501
Camp Pryor, Pryor, OK 74361
Fort Reno, near El Reno, OK
Fort Sill, OK 73503
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Fort Sill, OK 73503
Glennan General Hospital (PWC), Okmulgee, OK
Madill POW Camp, Madill, OK 73446
POW General Hospital #1, OK
Stringtown, OK 74569
Tonkawa, OK (first a base camp, later a branch camp under Camp Alva, OK)
US Federal Reformatory, El Reno, OK 73036, now El Reno Federal Reformatory
Waynoka, OK (branch camp under Camp Alva, OK)

POWs were buried at the Post Cemetery at Ft. Reno, the Post Cemetery at Ft. Sill, Camp Gruber, and Camp McAlester.

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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