Louisiana Maneuvers: Louisiana Goes to War, Twice

The post's second wartime story began in July 1943, when Afrika Korps prisoners of war arrived at Camp Polk and were housed where Honor Field lies today. They picked cotton, cut rice and lumber, and in the summer of 1944 helped sandbag the Red River against flooding. For the work they earned scrip that they could spend at the post exchange. The camp that had trained an American army for the 1941 Maneuvers had become, within two years, a place where captured German soldiers worked Louisiana's fields, mills and river banks.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Camp Polk Heritage Families — 2.5 mi
• Peason Ridge Heritage Families — 2.5 mi
• Fort Polk — 2.5 mi
• Wolf Rock Cave — 3.1 mi