Smith, Dott E.

Colonel Dott E. Smith commanded the largest prisoner of war facility in the United States from May 1944 to June 1946. He held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, and was Commanding Officer, Army Service Forces, Ninth Service Command, Prisoner of War Camp, Rupert, Idaho. The Ninth Service Command included branch camps in Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington. The camps held German, Russian, Italian, and Japanese prisoners. Russian captives were repatriated to the Soviet Union through the camps after the war.

From the guide to the Dott Smith Papers AR129., 1929-1946, 1943-1946, (Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library)