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TEXAS THE STATE WITH MOST POWS

by Bartee Haile By the end of May 1945, more enemy prisoners were sitting out the Second World War in Texas than any state in the Union. One out of every ten German, Italian and Japanese captives shipped to the United States for safekeeping wound up somewhere between the Red River and the Rio Grande.

For reasons of cost as well as security, U.S. officials decided in the months after Pearl Harbor to…

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