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The P.O.W camp recreation area in Saucier, MS

The P.O.W camp recreation area in Saucier, MS

Update: 2023-06-08
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We found this interesting location for this episode: The POW camp recreational area in Saucier, MS. This area is currently part of a trail system and that goes deep in the DeSoto forest in Mississippi. This is not an active POW camp in case you were wondering; As a POW, the place has been abandoned for a long time, but it was operational during WWII. 


I was not able to find a lot of information on this camp or more specifically the POW camp. The  USDA website only describes it as a recreation site that lies by a 7-acre lake with hiking trails and fishing opportunities.


 The best unofficial information we found was from roadsideamerica.com. They describe the site as being a “Former site of a prisoner of war camp, which held German and Italian POWs during World War II. The site was a Navy weapons range after the war and was then abandoned in the 1950s…” 




It interesting to think what the POWs might have heard doing time there. 





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The P.O.W camp recreation area in Saucier, MS

The P.O.W camp recreation area in Saucier, MS

Alejandro Verastegui