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German POWs Build “Splinter City” at Myrtle Beach
Just 48 hours after D-Day, 250 German POWs stepped off a train in Myrtle Beach. These Afrika Korps troops soon built their own camp at “Splinter City” near the Army airfield.
At first, local kids saw them as boogeymen. Yet rules had been bent to bring them here—camps weren’t meant to be this close to the coast.
The men earned 80 cents daily working timber or farms across Horry County. Soon after, fear gave way to odd friendships…