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Illinois POW Camps in World War II

Illinois POW Camps in World War II

O'Dell, Cary

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryRegional: MidwestWorld War II

Publisher Price: $24.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 1467171859
ISBN13: 9781467171854
Publisher: History Press
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 160
Language: English

Revisit a critical and little-known piece of WWII history that had a profound impact on Illinois and the nation.

During WWII, the United States was home to almost half a million POW's--German, Italian, and Japanese soldiers captured overseas and then brought to the United States. The POWs were housed in various large camps set up in forty-four of the nation's then forty-eight states. One of those states was Illinois. At its peak, Illinois housed three major base camps and twenty branch camps, stretching from the Rockford-Chicago area down to Camp Pomona, near Murphysboro. When not housed in these camps, POW's were put to work, on the state's farms and in its factories, to alleviate the country's serious wartime labor shortages. By the end of the war, there was no part of Illinois that was not touched by these prisoners of war.

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