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Title: Signal Corps Camp Kohler, California
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940s
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Ephemera Collection
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Signal Corps Camp Kohler, California was briefly a detention facility for Japanese-Americans, back in 1942, who were removed from their homes and businesses in the Sacramento region. Camp Kohler was named after First Lieutenant Frederick L. Kohler, a young Signal Corps officer and electrical engineer. He was one of thirteen passengers that died on March 14, 1942, when an overloaded Chinese DC-2-221. Camp Kohler was destroyed in a fire in 1947.
Type: image
Identifier: http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll3/id/6918
Subject: Camps and Resorts
Military Facilities
World War, 1939-1945

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