{"id":25899,"date":"2019-04-10T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25899"},"modified":"2019-04-10T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:26:54","slug":"prison-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/prison-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"American Prisoner of War Camps in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/amprison.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, more than 428,000 POWs were in Continental US camps during WWII. German, Italian and Japanese Prisoners of War were housed in a total of 110 California POW camps and hospitals&#8211;59 in the North and 51 in the South.<\/p>\n<p>Historian Kathy Kirkpatrick, author of two fascinating books &#8212; &#8220;American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California&#8221; and &#8220;American Prisoner of War Camps in Southern California&#8221; &#8212; tells the American POW story from a national and state perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The author even has a Death Index, Burial Locations List, Museums &amp; Website Roster and Indexes to assist you in your search to find\u00a0information about where the German, Italian and Japanese POWs were located.<\/p>\n<p>These well-documented books include bibliographies, enabling you to research further about ancestors, friends and others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historian Kirkpatrick is to be commended for her tireless effort to bring history alive and preserve it for future generations,&#8221; says historian Craig MacDonald. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/kathy-kirkpatrick.html\">Read his book review&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<h2>Fascinating Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Many California counties had Prisoner of War camps.<\/li>\n<li>German &amp; Italian Americans were given permission to hire POWs to work on their farms, in their canneries and at other businesses.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The majority of prisoners in California were Germans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, more than 428,000 POWs were in Continental US camps during WWII. German, Italian and Japanese Prisoners of War were housed in a total of 110 California POW camps and hospitals&#8211;59 in the North and 51 in the South. Historian Kathy Kirkpatrick, author of two fascinating books &#8212; &#8220;American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25900,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25899\/revisions\/25900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}