Internment Camp Found in Idaho!

Waco Waltz

Found! Proven! [:D]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/27/kooskia-internment-camp_n_3663446.html

yoshmyster

Didn't know it was lost. Hidden maybe but not lost.

ruger41

An old customer of mine was at the Tule Lake facility as a young boy. I never asked him about it because it was not a great time in his life. Wonder if he knew George Takei(Star Trek) who was also interred there as a child.

ChrisInTempe

Neither hidden nor lost. Friend of mine is a photographer who visited all these sites, including Kooskia. I first saw those photos over 25 years ago.

It's more like people just stopped paying attention or caring enough for the smaller sites to remain in the public eye. For a long time even the larger ones were forgotten to most.

yoshmyster

Since there weren't an "easy bake ovens" no one made them in to a walking history money makers like Auschwitz.

Junkballer

In the first sentence they write "in a shameful chapter", I disagree with that, the action was needed at the time [:(!] Hell, that's what we need to be doing NOW [:(!] [:0]

retroxler58

Here's a list of WWII POW Camps in the US...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_the_United_States

grumpygy

quote:Originally posted by retroxler58
Here's a list of WWII POW Camps in the US...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_the_United_States




Camp Adair Oregon, The say on there it was closed long ago. But in 1987 the Marine reserves from Eugene Oregon used it for their yearly rifle range. It had one of the best ranges I've been to.

Also did not see this there either.

quote:In 1957, Camp Adair became Adair Air Force Station and SAGE Support Facility, anticipating the construction of a CIM-10 Bomarc launch facility. Construction of the launch facility was not completed due to drastic reduction in the Bomarc program, but the infrastructure that was completed remains at the site


Camp White is now a V.A. Treatment Facility Out in the Middle of Nowhere. A drug(rehab) and mental hospital.

quote:Camp White was an Army training base in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, during World War II. It was also the site of a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. The camp was named in honor of George A. White, who served as adjutant general for Oregon starting in 1915.[1] The camp was dedicated September 15, 1942. Many of the troops trained at Camp White participated in the Oregon Maneuver combat exercise in the fall of 1943.[2][3] The camp was deactivated in April 1946.[1] There was a Camp White post office from 1942-1960, when the name was changed to White City

pwillie

The "Camps" were used as much for safety as an internment camp...When the Japs bombed Hawaii, there was threat that Japanese Americans were involved, and harm could have come to them from fellow Americans...suspicion of Japanese Americans being loyal to the Homeland was rampant.. Many would have been killed if left to the general economy..I have a friend that was held in a camp,and he later become a very successful businessman!He told me it gave him structure to overcome adversity when e started his business...

dlrjj

There is a city museum in Thunder Bay, Ontario that has artifacts and pictures of one located there during WWII.

POW camps were located all over, something - other than shooting them - had to be done with those who were captured.

EVILDR235

Years ago when i still lived in the Napa Valley there was a piece of property that had a long buildings on it that was rumored to have been a internment camp during WWII.The property with the building was on the right side of the road on Silverado Trail near the Oakville / Rutherford turnoffs.I never really paid much attention to it being a teenager at the time in the 1960s.I am sure it is long gone and the ground is full of grapes now.Now that i think about it,the area had a large Italian population at the time.


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