Date: February 25th, 2013

Letter Documenting Use of Labor from Tarboro, N.C., WWII Prisoner of War Camp

25 February, 2013 (13:39) | East Carolina Manuscript Collection, financial records, letters (correspondence) | By: Martha Elmore

Source: E. C. Winslow Records (Manuscript Collection #1174) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: About 3000 Italian prisoners of war were sent to Camp Butner, just outside of Durham, N.C., in September 1943 where they were engaged in work projects.  Out of this group about 500 men each were sent to branch camps in Tarboro, Windsor, [...]