Camp Ashby in the
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Princess Anne County, Virginia was the largest Prisoner of War camp in
South Hampton Roads during
World War II. It housed 6,000 German troops, many of
Adolf Hitler's
Afrika Corps who had been captured in
North Africa during the closing years of World War II.
Camp Ashby was erected quickly in 1942 on land leased from the state. At the time, the property's dominant feature was the Tidewater Victory Memorial Hospital, a tuberculosis sanitarium at
Virginia Beach Boulevard and Thalia Road.
That building became the camp's headquarters. The camp's low-slung barracks were scattered across of woods and field north of the present main branch of the
Virginia Beach Central Library and Loehman's Plaza shopping center.
In modern times, the original hospital building is part of the
Willis Wayside Furniture complex. Although several barracks buildings were converted and are extant as private residences, little else remains of the original camp.
See also
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List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
References
External links
Camp Ashby in Virginia Beach home to 6,000 P.O.W's during World War II - BROKEN LINKMemories of a former camp POW - BROKEN LINK
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Camp Ashby
Camp Ashby was a temporary U.S. Army installation sited in Berkeley, California during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved t ...
World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
History of Virginia Beach, Virginia
1942 establishments in Virginia