Prisoners of War

Captured Americans were confined in Camden throughout the British occupation. When the American army approached the town in August 1780, British troops locked the town’s patriot leaders in the jail (located on the southeast corner of Broad and King Streets) ...

Camp Marion, World War II Prisoners of War

1944 - 1946

Side A:

This site was once a twenty-four acre camp for Prisoners of War established on the grounds of the Marion Engineer Depot. The Depot was a major supply and logistics site of the U.S. Army Engineers during World ...

Prisoners of War in St. Augustine During the American Revolution

From the onset of the American Revolution in 1775, the British Crown Colony in East Florida was a Loyalist bastion. In its capital, St. Augustine, the British lodged as prisoners many American Patriots and their French allies. Most of these ...

Dedicated to all American Ex-Prisoners of War

We exist to help those who cannot help themselves

Marker is on Leonard Wood Drive south of Bundy Street, on the left when traveling south.

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Prisoners of War

Prior to World War II, few Americans had ever been held as prisoners of war on foreign soil. But the surrender of U.S. forces in the Phillippines in the spring of 1942 suddenly swelled the number of POWs into the ...

Ex-Prisoners of War and Those Missing In Action

Dedicated to All Ex-Prisoners

of War and Those

Missing In Action

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American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc

Dayton Area Chapter

To a unique type of human being, men and women of valor, all former prisoner's [sic] of war. Their unswerving loyalty, discipline and patriotism remained intact under the most trying conditions to which the human mind and body ...