Anyone have any info on the WW2 POW Camp Ruston?

La.Tech? Didn't know they had POW's

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Can’t put right on it ,but there is material on the net about POWS in Louisiana during WW2.

They had some in most of the farming communities. The slaves were gone after that other war in the 1800’s and most able bodied men were involved in the war effort.

Houma had some and Camp Plauche’ at the foot of the Huey P Long bridge had a large population.

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heard it was once a nice place to live back in the 40s, 50s and 60s.

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like how we brought all the Germans over but made Australia keep most of the Jap POWs

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. Many more Germans were captured than Japanese. The Japs fought to the death or were bypassed.

Almost all of Rommels Afrika Corps was captured early on into the war.

The US had the right fricking idea then. The uproar today over doing something like this...I can't imagine.

Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, the German governor of Paris who disobeyed Hitler's order to destroy the city (see book/movie Is Paris Burning), was held at Camp Clinton, right outside Jackson MS. It was located just off present-day McRaven Road, east of Springridge Road. It held 3K prisoners, mostly from the Afrika Korps.

La.Tech? Didn't know they had POW's
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Yes, The Tulane football team in 2005 after Katrina.

Well that makes sense why a restaurant near there bad the best sauerkraut I’ve ever had in my life in the south.

I had a professor tell a story about a trip he took to Germany. He was on a bus or train and this German guy started speaking English to him, but he sounded like a southerner. It turns out that he was a pow in Ruston and that’s where he learned to speak English.