Camp Clinton

Camp Clinton was a World War II prisoner of war facility located in Clinton, Mississippi, just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road. Camp Clinton was home to 3,000 German and Italian POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps.

Camp Clinton entrance in 1943. The sign reads "Prisoner of War Camp Clinton, Miss."

The prisoners at Camp Clinton provided labor to build the Mississippi River Basin Model, a one-square-mile working replica model of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, which the United States Army Corps of Engineers used for planning flood control projects.[1][2]

Camp Clinton also housed several dozen German generals and admirals, including Afrika Korps commander Hans-Jürgen von Arnim,[1][3] Wehrmacht general Ferdinand Neuling,[4] and Dietrich von Choltitz, the last wartime Governor of Paris, who surrendered to the Free French.[5]

References
  1. Skates, John Ray, Jr. (September 2001). "German Prisoners of War in Mississippi 1943–1946". Mississippi History Now. Archived from the original on 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2022-03-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Ettema, R. (2000). Hydraulic Modeling: Concepts and Practice. ASCE Publications. pp. 19–20. ISBN 978-0-7844-0415-7. LCCN 00026969. OL 11031532M.
  3. Krammer, Arnold (2008). Prisoners of War: A Reference Handbook. Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-275-99300-9. LCCN 2007038895. OL 10289836M.
  4. Zinke, Dieter (2014-10-21). "General Ferdinand Neuling". Axis History Forum. Archived from the original on 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  5. "Von Choltitz: is Paris burning ??". World War II Graves. 2018-04-03. Archived from the original on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2022-03-28.

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