A portion of the murals painted by Italian prisoners of war inside the Officer’s Club. This section depicts Wyoming’s Independence Rock.
Front view of the Officer’s Club of Douglas, Wyoming World War II POW Camp.
Photo by: Tom Leonard/Wikimedia | CC BY 3.0
Opened in 1943, the Douglas Prisoner of War Camp was Wyoming’s main prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II. During its three years in operation, the camp housed an estimated 5,000 POWs across 180 buildings; the camp was bigger than the town of Douglas itself, spanning over a square mile. Today, visitors to the site can tour the former Officers’ Club, where historical artifacts and murals painted by prisoners are displayed.
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