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11/13/2024 10:18:05 PM EDT
This was posted on the Fayetteville Reddit board.  I never knew that Fort Bragg housed prisoners of war.

The story is that this prisoner was a general worker around this area and this is a pic of a letter and postcard he sent back to Germany.

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1/30/2025 6:39:37 PM EDT
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FT Leonard Wood had POW's during WW2 as well. IIRC the post laundry was built by German pows..
1/30/2025 7:01:39 PM EDT
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FT BRAGG - damn straight. DOL
1/30/2025 7:34:21 PM EDT
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so, its 1943...

would have been interesting to see how mail got delivered from Germany to USA and vice versa.
1/31/2025 12:21:55 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By 45B10:
FT Leonard Wood had POW's during WW2 as well. IIRC the post laundry was built by German pows..
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All of the rock work across from the hospital was done by the POW's and is on the register of historic places.  The camp was in the field across the road from the airfield.
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2/10/2025 11:03:35 AM EDT
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There were a lot of German POWs in the states during the war.  Algona, Iowa of all places had a camp.  They did farm work in the area.
2/10/2025 11:05:27 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By cmeyer001:
so, its 1943...

would have been interesting to see how mail got delivered from Germany to USA and vice versa.
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That would be interesting.  Neutral countries I suppose, Spain would have been the easiest.
2/10/2025 11:30:44 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Ameshawki:
There were a lot of German POWs in the states during the war.  Algona, Iowa of all places had a camp.  They did farm work in the area.
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Aliceville, AL used to have one of the largest POW camps for Germans (max was about 12k). The camp is long gone, but there’s a nice museum there featuring original items, photos, videos, as well as some art made by the POWs. Up until last year, they also hosted an annual living history event where they put up a mock fence with watchtower, and had the “Germans” march into the camp under guard from the train station, just like they did in real life when the camp was first populated. They’d also do a small mock skirmish with blanks, but that was just to inform the crowd of how those guys would’ve been captured initially in North Africa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Aliceville

The town said last year they had no plans to host the event again. I think it cost more than it brought into the town, even though everyone in uniform was a volunteer. Basically the town is just dead otherwise. It doesn’t help that it’s in the middle of nowhere. There was only one policeman on duty last year, so the fake MPs had to perform actual traffic control lol. They still have an old brick movie theater, so they played a 40s film, and also hosted a “USO ball” so it was a really nice event. Glad I got to participate once before they shut it down.
2/16/2025 11:29:50 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By cmeyer001:
so, its 1943...

would have been interesting to see how mail got delivered from Germany to USA and vice versa.
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From the postmarks, looks like US mail to New York, then into the Army Post Office System. I would guess then handed over to the Red Cross, to exchange for mail from US PWs to come back the same way in reverse.

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