Letter from B.Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to George Naohara, September 4, 1945
Creator
Read, B. Y.: author United States. Army. Western Defense Command
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A letter from Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp, California. It notifies him of Public Proclamation no. 24 and the rescission of exclusion. The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence 1 page, 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript application/pdf
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake World War II--Administration--Western Defense Command World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders Identity and values--Kibei
Place
Presidio of San Francisco, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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