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 Wyoming during World War II included:

Basin, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Camp Douglas, Douglas, WY 82633 (base camp)
Clearmont, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Deaver, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Esterbrook, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Fort Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne, WY, now Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
Lovell, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Riverton, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Wheatland, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)
Worland, WY (branch camp under Camp Douglas, WY)

POWs were buried in the Post Cemetery at Ft. Frances E. Warren, WY.

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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