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Camp Clinton was a World War II prisoner of war facility located in Clinton, Mississippi, just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road. Camp Clinton was home to 3,000 German and Italian POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps .
Camp Algona; Camp Aliceville; Camp Ashby (Virginia) Camp Atlanta; Camp Beaver Dam; Camp Breckinridge; Camp Butner; Camp Clark, Missouri; Camp Clinton; Camp Concordia; Camp Dawson (West Virginia) Camp Douglas (Wyoming) Camp Edwards; Camp Ellis; Camp Fannin; Camp Flint; Camp Forrest; Camp Hereford; Camp Houlton; Camp Hulen; Camp Myles Standish ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). 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 ...
World War II Victory Streamer: 1942–1945 Pacific War: National Defense Service Streamer with three Bronze Stars 1950–1954, 1961–1974, 1990–1995, 2009 – present Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, War on Terrorism: Korean Service Streamer: 23 August 1953 – 27 July 1954 Korea Vietnam Service Streamer with two Silver Stars June 1965 ...
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
An appeal to self-interest during World War II, by the United States Office of War Information (restored by Yann) Wait for Me, Daddy , by Claude P. Dettloff (restored by Yann ) Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau at Auschwitz Album , by the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst (restored by Yann )
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German and Soviet invasion of Poland. [2]
Naval Advisor, War Production Board Office, Baltimore, Maryland; Naval Advisor to Contract Distribution, Branch Office, War Production Board. Little Rock, Arkansas; Naval Advisor to Division of Contract Distribution, War Production Board, Birmingham, Alabama