POWs in America

[Atticus Finch]

Camp Battle was here in New Bern. It was located on the Neuse River next door to where Hattaras Yachts are now produced. It is a city park nowadays, but parts of the original barracks foundations remain. I found the following blurb about the camp and it comports with what I've heard from the locals who remember it.

At the New Bern camp, the Germans worked on logging projects (30%), saw mills (20%), farming (20%), meat packing / food processing (10%), scattered miscellaneous industrial plants (7%) and fertilizer works (3%). Ten percent of the prisoners were left behind in the camp at all times, due to American administrative policies.

AF

 

[Stearmen]

Camp Carson had 12,000 German POWs. The population of Colorado Springs was less then 36,000 at the time!

 

[rjb1]

I don't know what camp he started from, but one German POW decided to "escape" and made it as far as Nashville. He was caught by the FBI while trying to catch a bus about 100 yards from my present office.