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General => Armed Forces => World War Two => Topic started by: JuanToomany on Saturday 15 February 14 11:11 GMT (UK)
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Hi folks
Im going to Naples for a long weekend in May and would like to visit a transit camp if there's any of it left my father was held at after being captured in Tobruk in 1942. The camp apparently is in a place called Capua 30 kms NW of Naples and the number of the camp I was given by the red cross is CCN60 PM3400. Any information on this camp and how I get there from Naples would be greatly appreciated :)
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hi
if you do a google search for ITALIAN POW CAMP 66 from the list you should find a bbc ww2 archive list site which has a description given by an ex pow who was sent to Capua camp who says it was just an untidy bunch of tents thrown up in any old order poor food apart from red cross parcels , so certainly doesn,t sound like much or anything is left unless some memorial is there to recognise where the camp was .
also , do a google map search for Capua Italy from there you can get a route planned by looking on the left side of the page for get directions cick on it then put naples in top box then Capua in the other not only do you get it shown on the map but also driving directions out of naples right into Capua .
regards
trevor
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From Allied intelligence sources in September 1943:-
66 Capua. 30kms N.W. of Naples. Camp 12,000 sq. metres. in 5 sections.
At least one section tented.
Reportedly moved to Camp 82 Caserta.
Reading through Red Cross Reports for 1941 the Camp appears to have been all tents with no light or heating.
By Nov 1942 All sections except one were of wooden Barracks and Stone Bungalows. The Camp was obviously improved over the two years of its existence with lots of POW movement both in and out.
Descriptions of the Camp given by former inmates would differ greatly depending at what period
they were in the Camp.
hi
if you do a google search for ITALIAN POW CAMP 66 from the list you should find a bbc ww2 archive list site which has a description given by an ex pow who was sent to Capua camp who says it was just an untidy bunch of tents thrown up in any old order poor food apart from red cross parcels , so certainly doesn,t sound like much or anything is left unless some memorial is there to recognise where the camp was .
also , do a google map search for Capua Italy from there you can get a route planned by looking on the left side of the page for get directions cick on it then put naples in top box then Capua in the other not only do you get it shown on the map but also driving directions out of naples right into Capua .
regards
trevor
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Hello! I know your post was some time ago but we are currently looking at my Grandad's journey in WW2. He seems to have had the same experience as your father - 1942 in Tobruk and taken to Capua 66.
Did the trip bear any fruit? Regards, Anna