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    66667°W / 43.92694; -78.66667 The Bowmanville POW camp, also known as Camp 30, was a Canada administered POW camp for German soldiers during World War...
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  • The Battle of Bowmanville was a 1942 revolt in the Bowmanville prisoner of war camp (Camp 30) in Ontario, Canada. The prisoners, most of whom were higher-ranking...
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    A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power...
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    General Leutnant Hans von Ravenstein. The Bowmanville boys' school had been quickly turned into a POW camp by surrounding the existing school buildings...
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    The Bowmanville Break and the film, The McKenzie Break) failed. Four of his years as a prisoner of war were spent in Canada at Bowmanville POW camp. Kretschmer...
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    captured and sent to the Bowmanville POW camp, located 40 miles (65 km) east of Toronto, Canada. Krug escaped from Bowmanville on April 16, 1942. He made...
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  • Canadians ended the policy, there was an uprising of German POWs at Bowmanville POW camp. On 7 October, Hitler personally penned a note in the Wehrmacht...
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    is remembered for being "the worst massacre at a POW camp in U.S. history". A museum was opened at Camp Salina in 2016. It is also the deadliest mass shooting...
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  • sources. In addition to POWs, some civilian internees were held in the camps and some estimates include such prisoners. All POWs were protected by the conditions...
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  • U-434. Heyda was eventually sent to the Bowmanville POW camp in Ontario, near Toronto, Canada. At Bowmanville in October 1942 an insurrection of the prisoners...
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  • U-172. 1,022 were rescued but 45 perished. Battle of Bowmanville: A revolt in the Bowmanville POW camp in Ontario, Canada broke out. 400 prisoners barricaded...
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  • being captured in March 1941 and spending the rest of the war in the Bowmanville POW camp, Canada. After the war, he rejoined the Bundesmarine, and became...
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  • at the Angler POW Camp near Neys Provincial Park on the north shore of Lake Superior planned the largest escape from a Canadian POW camp during World War...
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    Operation Kiebitz (category POW escapes and rescues during World War II)
    of four skilled U-boat commanders from a Canadian prisoner of war camp in Bowmanville, Ontario. The subsequent counter operation by the Royal Canadian...
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  • List of prisoner-of-war escapes (category POW escapes and rescues during World War II)
    Nineteen German POWs escaped through a large drainage pipe from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. All were soon recaptured. 1943 – Bowmanville POW camp, Canada. In...
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  • major armed engagement, the Battle of Bowmanville, suppressing a three-day riot at the PoW camp at Bowmanville on Lake Ontario that involved fighting...
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  • namely: Schill 2 (17 – 20 November 1943) Operation Kiebitz Bowmanville POW camp (Battle of Bowmanville) Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IXC/40 boat U-536". German...
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    Lordsburg Internment camp". Retrieved December 5, 2012. "New Mexico Office of the State Historian : Lordsburg Internment POW Camp". Archived from the original...
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  • officers (including Otto Kretschmer) imprisoned at the Camp 30 prisoner of war camp at Bowmanville, Ontario in early 1943. The correspondence detailed an...
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    housing, than the standard POW camps. Camp Lamont was used for German POW volunteers to work on crops. Camp Cooke held German POWs, now the site of Vandenberg...
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  • War (POW) camp in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter – a Kriegsmarine U-boat commander – challenges the authority of the camp’s rigidly...
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    Great Papago Escape (category POW escapes and rescues during World War II)
    of the camp. Camp Papago Park was built in 1943 and located in Papago Park, a public recreational area in eastern Phoenix. Initially, the camp was to...
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    Japanese internment camp near Santa Fe, New Mexico, during World War II. On March 12, 1945, approximately 275 internees assembled in Camp Santa Fe to watch...
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    Escape from Fort Stanton (category POW escapes and rescues during World War II)
    on November 1, 1942, when four German sailors escaped from an internment camp at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. There were other minor escape attempts from...
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    officers (including Otto Kretschmer) imprisoned at the Camp 30 prisoner of war camp at Bowmanville, Ontario in early 1943. The correspondence detailed an...
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    Mimico Correctional Centre (category World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada)
    were transferred to the Bowmanville Training School. The Reform School and adjacent property were merged with the Mimico out-camp for the Ontario Reformatory-Guelph...
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    directing traffic Constable Robert W. Duncan Ontario Provincial Police (Bowmanville) near Port Hope, Ontario February 21, 1945 Died after falling from a...
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    Ishimatsu Shintani were taken into custody. Shintani was sent to an internment camp and later rejoined his family on Niʻihau, where he attained U.S. citizenship...
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    (NLWC) Lady Exeter (now disbanded) and the camp shared by all three corps, called Camp Cumberland (this camp no longer exists; it was decommissioned around...
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    all 258 sailors were taken to Camp Shoemaker and questioned. Forty-nine of the 50 mutineers were imprisoned in the camp's brig. Joe Small was placed in...
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