CCC & POW Camp Museum

The war in Europe had been over for two months when the killing happened here. About 250 German prisoners, most from Rommel's Afrika Korps, were held at this camp on Salina's Main Street, working the beet harvest and, by all accounts, friendly with the town. Just past midnight on July 8, 1945, a guard named Clarence Bertucci climbed a tower, aimed a machine gun at the sleeping men's tents, and emptied 250 rounds in fifteen seconds. Nine died; nineteen were wounded — the deadliest attack on a POW camp in American history. A museum tells it now, plainly.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mayfield — 13 mi
  Gateway to Twelve Mile Canyon and the Skyline Drive high country
• Gunnison — 14 mi
  Sanpete's southern hub, home to Utah's oldest operating theater
• Sterling — 18 mi
  A highway hamlet and the doorway to Palisade State Park
• Palisade State Park — 20 mi
  A pioneer-built lake turned central Utah's favorite state park

More markers nearby

• CCC Camp F-32, Co.-479 — steps away
• Redmond Pioneers — 4.1 mi
• Gunnison Pioneers — 14 mi
• Gunnison Valley Veterans Memorial — 14 mi