The prisoner-of-war barracks at Camp Billy Mitchell, at Milwaukee's Mitchell Field airport, as seen in March 1946. With the war over, the barracks' 275 living units were seen as an option to help ...

In January 1945, the first of what was expected to be 1,000 to 1,500 German POWs were brought to what was renamed Camp Billy Mitchell. And not long after, on Jan. 13, 1945, the first prisoners ...