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Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943 Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942 Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
The Go for Broke Monument in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, commemorates the Japanese Americans who served in the United States Army during World War II. The National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court in Los Angeles lists the names of all the Japanese Americans killed in service to the country in World War II as well as in Korea ...
Standing in a landscaped plaza, a semi-circular granite wall curves around the sculpture. The wall features inscriptions of the names of the ten major internment camps where over 120,000 Japanese Americans were confined. Of the nearly 160,000 citizens of Japanese descent living in Hawaii, fewer than 2,000 were confined.
The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also operated the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York , which was the only refugee camp set up in the United States for refugees from Europe. [ 1 ]
Eventually 33,000 Japanese American men and many Japanese American women served in the U.S. military during World War II, of which 20,000 served in the U.S. Army. [173] [174] The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was composed primarily of Japanese Americans, served with uncommon distinction in the European Theatre of World War II.
Although more than 20,000 U.S. and Allied servicemen and civilians were held in the Japanese internment camp, only 2,656 American names are inscribed on the wall. [1] The names and ranks of the servicemen held in the camp are listed on the memorial walls with horizontal rows with regular Typeface and spacing, similar to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. [7]
Japanese American Segregation Centers (1942-1946) — for mandatory Japanese American citizen internment during WW II in the United States. The assembly centers for processing , concentration camps for forced relocation, and citizen isolation centers and prisons for dissident incarceration.
Executive Order 9066 took effect on March 30, 1942. The order had all native-born Americans and long-time legal residents of Japanese ancestry living in California to surrender themselves for detention. Japanese Americans were held to the end of the war in 1945. In total 97,785 Californians of Japanese ancestry were held during the war. [6] [7 ...