Goleta's Prisoner of War Camp

Quite a contrast to the Civilian Internment Camp the Japanese incarcerated my family in for 4 years in Indonesia. Killed my civilian grandfather, starved, rape and hard labor for my grandmother and her 3 kids were hunting rats and insects for food.

Thank you! - fascinating.

Is it at 34.457121, -119.988659 to the left of 101 just before it goes along the beach approaching El Capitan?

Great information !! Thank you so much for sharing.

I've been looking for more information on this forever! Thanks Tom!

Thank you so much for posting. I really enjoyed the video. I will pass the link a long to a WWII vet. He is 99! My Dad was a WWII vet and went to live in Germany after the war. My sister and I were born there.

Fine video, what an asset to the locals to be able to learn these things! I once talked with Mom of Mom's Italian Village and she told me she had considered it wrong that the Italians held up in Lompoc were prisoners, they were Italian boys! So she organized locals to drive up and pick groups of them up to come down for a good meal at her restaurant and a dance, for which she recruited local girls in a sort of USO. She said fondly than many of them returned to Santa Barbara after the war, married girls they had flirted with at those dances, and she was able to tell me specific walls around town, especially in Montecito, that were the handicraft of Italian stonemasons. Together with Arnoldi's Cafe next door those restaurants were an important gathering area for local Italians.

That is a fantastic story. Thank you for sharing, Tom.

This former POW camp should be registered as a historical landmark. Image that these POW German soldiers were taken to Mom's Italian Village for a meal every once in a while . I sure miss Mom's. Last time I was there it was in the early 90's. My mom and I really enjoyed going there in the 60's when I was a kid. I even remember Mom.

Fabulous. Thank you for sharing on edhat!

This would be a great way to detain gang members and petty crooks without costing the moon and with time served not sitting around idle or working out to develop more threatening physiques. It would offer an opportunity for classes in life skills and language and not be a expensive waste of time all around.

Such interesting history in our own back yard. Thank you again, Tom!

Marvelous history! Wow.

Super WOW.... really interesting video. I hadn't known about that camp, but I was aware of that look-out platform, that you could see, in the hills, before the tunnel near Gaviota.... Not sure if that's still there anymore.

Agree with the first 2 comments. This was outstanding and informative and can you imagine we had They escaped?!

Wow. I had no idea. What a great video. Thank you.

Great video, a must watch!