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 Texas during World War II included:

Ashburn General Hospital, McKinney, TX
Beaumont General Hospital, Beaumont, TX
Biggs Field, TX (branch camp under Ft. Bliss, TX)
Big Springs, TX (branch camp under Camp Bowie, TX)
Brooke General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, TX
Camp Barkeley, Abilene, TX (branch camp under Camp Bowie, TX)
Camp Bowie, Brown County, TX (base camp, POWs originally buried here were transferred to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Ft. Sam Houston, TX)
Camp Brady, Brady, TX 76825 (base camp)
Camp Fannin, Tyler, TX (base camp)
Camp Hearne, Hearne, TX 77859 (base camp)
Camp Hereford, Hereford, TX 79045
Camp Hood, Killeen, TX, became Fort Hood in 1950 (POWs originally buried here were transferred to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Ft. Sam Houston, TX)
Camp Howze, near Gainsville, TX
Camp Hulen, Palacios, TX
Camp Huntsville, Huntsville, TX 77341 (now a part of Sam Houston State University)
Camp Maxey, Paris, TX (POWs originally buried here were transferred to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Ft. Sam Houston, TX)
Camp McLean, McLean, TX 79057
Camp Mexia, Mexia, TX
Camp Swift, Bastrop County, TX (POWs originally buried here were transferred to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Ft. Sam Houston, TX)
Camp Wallace, Galveston County, TX
Camp Wolters, TX 76067, now Fort Wolters
Center, TX (branch camp under Camp Fannin, TX)
Chireno, TX (branch camp under Camp Fannin, TX)
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, Corpus Christie, TX
Fabens, TX (branch camp under Ft. Bliss, TX)
Fort Bliss, TX 79916 (base camp)
Fort Bliss Internment, Fort Bliss, TX 79916
Fort Clark, Brackettville, TX 78832 (Branch Camp), now Fort Clark Springs
Fort Crockett, Galveston, TX (base camp)
Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234
Fort D. A. Russell, near Marta, TX (Branch Camp)
Gatesville Internment Camp, Gatesville, TX
Harmon General Hospital, Longview, TX (branch camp under Camp Fannin, TX)
Kenedy POW Camp, Kenedy, TX
Lufkin, TX (branch camp under Camp Fannin, TX)
McCloskey General Hospital, Temple, TX
Pyote AAF, TX (branch camp under Ft. Bliss, TX)
San Augustine, TX (branch camp under Camp Fannin, TX)
US Public Health Service Hospital, Fort Worth, TX
Ysleta, TX (branch camp under Ft. Bliss, TX)

POWs are buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and Fort Bliss National 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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