For those of you who thought that the town of Tonkawa, Oklahoma and "P.O.W." would never be in the same sentence, you would not be alone. I had lived in Tonkawa for only about 3 years, when I had "discovered" a small brick building, probably two feet wide by two feet long, in a open field near our family's business, Kitco Manufacturing, where we built oil tank structures.

That's when I was told how that structure was the only remaining building of the Prisoner of War camp in Tonkawa, that was operational during World War II.

I only discovered last year in Feb. 2007, when I back for a visit, that the town of Tonkawa, had made a monument dedicating the POW camp and some of the history behind it. Therefore, I will let the pictures, that I took, tell the rest of the story.