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Description
The US Government housed German Prisoners of War (POWs) at Camp Houlton during WWII.
Many of these POW's worked locally on potato farms since most local young men had gone to war.
About This Item
- Title: POW stockades with buildings at Camp Houlton Air Base, Houlton, ca. 1945
- Creation Date: circa 1945
- Subject Date: circa 1945
- Location: Airport, Houlton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 10.2 cm x 12.7 cm
- Collection: Moloney Family Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Concentration camps--Maine--Houlton
- Detention facilities--Maine--Houlton
- Farms and farming--Maine--Houllton
- Prisoners of war--German--Maine--Houlton
- Prisons--Maine--Houlton
- United States. Army--Facilities--Maine--Houlton
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners
Other Keywords
- Camp Houlton
- Houlton Air base
- Houlton airfield
- POW camp
- Prisoner of war
- Snow
- Stockades
- Winter
- wires
- WWII
For more information about this item, contact:
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum109 Main Street, Houlton, ME 04730
207-532-4216
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Item 103805
Camp Houlton POW area, Houlton, ca. 1945
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