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From the Archives

 Branch Camps

Moorehead, MN

Number:  1


POW Housing: Union Warehouse owned by the Moorhead Co-op Onion Grower; ,Corner of 21st St. and 5th Ave 


Open:  May 28th - November 1944 August 1945-November 1945

Work: Farm Labor

Commanding Officers:  1st Lt. Blair ;2nd Lt. B.C. Davis


Number of POW: 85 men (As of September 1945)

Unique Occurrences: Drowning of Franz Hummer

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Camp Algona

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Box 174

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