Record #:

16154

Author(s):

Billinger, Robert D.

Abstract:

Out of approximately 370,000 German POWs on U.S. soil, the state held 10,000 in eighteen camps. These camps were simply tents surrounded by barbed-wire fencing and watchtowers and were located in Pender, Onslow, Richmond, Scotland, Union, and New Hanover Counties.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p10-12, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945