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A map of the Camp Leesburg army air corps base, home to the German POW Camp from 1943-45 on the edge of Silver Lake, Lake County, Florida.
The two major camps housing German prisoners in Florida were Camp Blanding and Camp Gordon Johnston. The former camp was located near Starke in north central Florida and the latter on the northern Gulf coast in and around Carrabelle.
A map of the Camp Leesburg army air corps base, home to the German POW Camp from 1943-45 on the edge of Silver Lake, Lake County, Florida. Date Issued 1943
Seven German soldiers who had been reinterred at Camp Blanding, were reinterred on 25 April 1946, at the Fort Benning National Cemetery near Columbus, Ga when the federal government returned Camp Blanding to the Florida National Guard.
The interactive map below shows the location of many important detention/internment facilities operated by the U.S. Government during World War II, which held persons of German ancestry from the US and Latin America. Clicking on a map location will link you to more detailed information about a given facility or facilities at that location.
2 sty 2022 · German Germans. Some were not too far away. In May 1943, Allied forces had begun shipping to the United States Germans captured in combat. More than 9,000 went to 22 Florida camps, many at or...
Camp Blanding, FL (7 German WWII POW burials transferred to Fort Benning, GA) There were 2 base camps, 25 branch camps, 1 hospital, 1 internment location, and 1 cemetery in FL.
