WWII Prisoners of War

WWII US Prisoners of War and Internees WWIIPOWs.docx, 22 Nov 2023 Source: *https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-prisoners-war-civilian-american-citizens-captured.html*
	POWs	Died	Internees	Died
Held by Japan	27,465	11,107	< 13,996	1,536
Held by Germany	93,941	1,121	4,749	168
Totals	121,406	12,228

Commentary for the above table:

Internees were primarily US civilian citizens, with a sprinkling of US military.
Very few US prisoners of war were repatriated during WWII. However, substantial number of internees were repatriated during the war, but might still included in the above counts.
The above counts include some US citizens who avoided being interned by hiding out.

Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII US > WWII Casualties> WWII Prisoners Of War webpage:

U.S. Prisoners of War and Civilian American Citizens Captured and Interned by Japan in World War II, https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-prisoners-war-civilian-american-citizens-captured.html - contains data used to build the above table.
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP24 - access the National Archives' Records of World War II Prisoners of War (143,374 records) and World War II Prisoners of the Japanese Data Files (29,879 records) databases.