CT's Bradley Airport Was Once a POW Camp For German Soldiers

According to the Hartford Courant, soldiers of the Third Reich from Germany landed on American soil on October 8, 1944. These German soldiers were prisoners of war, and Bradley Field was one of about 600 camps that had been set up throughout the United States to detain POWs. Vermont was the only New England state without a POW camp.

According to connecticuthistory.org, in the early 1940s, Bradley Field, now the location for Bradley International Airport, was used as a training base for air combat units and a staging area for overseas deployment. But near the end of the war in 1945, it was turned into a prison camp for German POWs.