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Description
United States Employment Services (USES) report on the logistical organization and management of registering and processing Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans during their forced evacuation to incarceration camps in World War II. Subheadings read: I. Control Station Operations; II. WCCA Team Offices; III. Uses Limited Function WCCA Offices; IV. Recruitment of Preliminary Work Crews in Assembly Camps; V. Recruitment of Preliminary Work Crews for Reception Centers; VI. Recruitment of Evacuees for Private Employment; VII. Other Uses Activities. In 1942, Charles Blankenship, a physician with the U. S. Public Health Service and medical consultant for the Service Command, United States Army in the San Francisco Regional Office, was given the assignment to inspect all Japanese American incarcerees from the Southern California sector for medical conditions before or as they entered the Santa Anita Racetrack Assembly Center, and later Manzanar, Gila River, and Rohwer incarceration camps.
Executive orders--United States World War II--Mass Removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--'Evacuation Day World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Japanese American community responses World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Administration--Wartime Civil Control Administration World War II--Administration--Western Defense Command World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Medical care and health issues World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--The journey World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Living conditions World War II--Economic losses World War II--Immigration detention centers World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration Geographic communities--Arizona Geographic communities--California Geographic communities--Oregon Geographic communities--Washington Industry and employment--Agriculture--Farming Industry and employment--Agriculture--Migrant labor Industry and employment--Labor brokering Industry and employment--Medicine
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California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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