John Burson wrote in message
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Thirty POW camps were built in 1942 to house the onslaught of captured
enemy
soldiers. McClellan's POW camp was completed in 1943. By mid-1944,
German
POWs had become a significant part of the labor pool at Fort McClellan.
In
their off hours and in jobs assigned to them on post, POWs created a
substantial legacy at Fort McClellan in masonry and art as well as more
invisible improvements. Two hundred prisoners were detailed daily for
excavation, drainage, and clearing operations on the main post; 170 were
involved with food preparation; and others worked on vehicles on post.
POW
labor is responsible for numerous examples of stonework on Fort McClellan,
including stone walls, chimneys, a patio built behind the old Recreation
Center, drainage ditches, and landscaping. The carved bar at the
Officer's
Club (Remington Hall) and the exceptional murals which dress the club's
wall
are also credited to POWs. The camp at Fort McClellan not only acted as
the
processing center for all prisoners interned in the Alabama camps, but was
the last camp to be deactivated on April

A quick web search turned up a list of major camps at
http://uboat.net/men/pow/pow_in_america_stats.htm
(the list is long and tacked on at the bottom); the site also
has a monthly census of prisoners in the system and list
a peak of over 425,000 prisioners. Japanese never accounting
for as much as 2% of the population after April '43..

I've read of German PWs being dropped off around California
during Orange season to pick the fruit of indivual trees in
peoples' yards. Later in the day, the truck would come back for'm,
no guards, no escapes.
I don't know if such low security was common.

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David Lesher wrote:

German POW's held in the US. I recall reading the Army shipped most
into the Midwest. (I know there was one camp in Sandusky OH area.)

Reportedly a German POW camp located near the massive U.S.
Army Sioux Ordinance Depot approximately 20 miles from Sidney,
Nebraska. When WW2 started the installation provided hundreds of
earthen bomb storage bunkers dotting the prairie, in addition to a
vast complex of warehouses that were used throughout WW2, Korea and
Vietnam. In 1967, most of the complex was turned over to area
farmers/ranchers and a community college (where I received my A&P
mechanic certificate in 1983).

-Mike Marron

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