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From the Archives

 Branch Camps

Ortonville, MN

Number: 11


POW Housing: Quarters next to Big Stone Camping Company

Open: July 7th, 1944 - Sept. 24 1944 ;July 10th, 1945 - Nov. 1945
Work:  Farm Labor and Canning 

Commanding Officers:  Capt. Clifford M. Jenner

Number of POW:  244 men (As of Sept. 1945)

Unique Occurrences:  Camp was in two states ; Headquarters were in South Dakota the stockade was in Minnesota

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Phone:

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Address: 

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Box 174

Algona, IA 50511

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