Camps Forrest, Tyson and Campbell also served as prisoner of war camps for German, Italian and Austrian POWs through 1946. Prisoners were also held at Tellico Plains, Crossville, Memphis, Lawrenceburg and Nashville.
At Camp Forrest, which was the headquarters for several permanent and temporary POW camps in five southeastern states, approximately 68,000 prisoners were processed.
Prisoners in the camps worked at prison hospitals and area farms, cut pulpwood and drained malarial swamps. Several POW groups produced their own German newspapers, performed plays, wrote poetry and often became the object of curious Tennesseeans.
Again, a Whole Lot better to be a German in an American Prison Than the Other Way Around. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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