Biography
Paul O. Ingwersen is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Omaha, Nebraska as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
Paul O. Ingwersen is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Omaha, Nebraska as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
The individually named entry appears on roster sheet 5, row 9, with historical serial stem 11-26-G-14. The table labels Camp McCoy as the place of detention and marks the internment category “Permanently.” That word is an administrative classification in this dated roster, not a measured term or proof of lifelong detention. Its “transferred from” column names Kansas City; no transfer day is printed.
May 1, 1942 is the roster’s observation date. It is not entered as a first arrest or admission date. The roster’s civilian-internment classification does not establish guilt, a particular political affiliation, ethnicity, citizenship, birth date or gender. No current imprisonment is inferred from this historical document.
Official Camp McCoy roster, May 1, 1942, PDF page 25, sheet 5, row 9.
The official camp correspondence expands the recorded name to Paul Otto Ingwersen. The canonical display name is retained; the supported middle name is recorded separately. The March 16, 1942 personnel-record transmittal places this individual among Camp McCoy civilian internees; it is not an initial admission date.