Fort Hunt: A Long Kept Secret about WWII POWs.

More than 3,400 prisoners of war spent time incarcerated at Fort Hunt in southeastern Fairfax County during World War II. Details about the military base's secret, and not entirely legal, mission are just know beginning to be known. Read the article here.

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I had read *The Escape Factory* several years ago. There is no doubt that Fort Hunt has an interesting past. The one remaining guard tower is an eerie structure.

Posted by: Anne | September 22, 2006 3:04 PM

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