World War II Prisoner of War Camp, Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania
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For the 1943-4 World War II Gettysburg Battlefield training camp at the former Pitzer Woods CCC camp (Camp Renaissance), see Camp Sharpe.
The World War II Prisoner of War camp on the Gettysburg Battlefield was established on a former military engagement site of the American Civil War in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the United States.
This prison camp, which was created to house four hundred and fifty POWs who had previously been incarcerated at the Gettysburg Armory on Seminary Ridge and a stockade that was located on the Emmitsburg Road, operated from June 29, 1945,[1]:ādā through April 1946[2] at the former site of the McMillan Woods CCC camp.[3]