List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States

The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas.

Eventually, every state (with the exceptions of Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) and Hawaii, then a territory, had each at least a POW camp.

[1] Some of the camps were designated "segregation camps", where Nazi "true believers" were separated from the other prisoners due to retaliation killings and terror toward POWs they thought were too friendly to their American captors.

Due to a labor shortage, Italian Service Units worked on Army depots, in arsenals and hospitals, and on farms.

[8]: 272 Iowa The Italian, and one German POW who committed suicide rather than be repatriated, are interred just outside the post cemetery boundaries.