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Description
A single page memorandum from M. F. Hass, Lieutenant Colonel, with an adjusted evacuation schedule for May 8th and 9th in Los Angeles. The memorandum lists the related exclusion order, date, number of evacuees, and the assembly center. The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
Geographic communities--California World War II--Administration--Wartime Civil Control Administration World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders
Place
Los Angeles, California Temporary Assembly Centers--Pomona Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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