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Title: Transfer agreement between War Department and War Relocation Authority pertaining to Manzanar Relocation Area
Creator: United States War Department, Western Defense Command: publisher
War Relocation Authority: publisher
DeWitt, J.L.: author
Fryer, E. R. : author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-05-31
1942-06-02
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Materials in public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Agreement of transfer from the U.S. War Department to the War Relocation Department for the "Manzanar Relocation Area." After the War Department completed physical construction of the buildings and infrastructure used at the incarceration camps, administration of the camps was transferred to the War Relocation Authority.
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.
Type: text
Format: Memorandum
1 page, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: sjs_fla_0431
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6261
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Incarceration camps--Construction
World War II--Incarceration camps--Security
Place: Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source: San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt987024h5/
John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records

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