Letter from Charles F. Blankenship, Medical Director, Retired, Department of Health and Human Services to Assistant Surgeon General, Leonard Bachman, Division of Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Health and Human Services, August 12, 1981
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Description
Letter from Dr. Charles F. Blankenship recounting his participation in the medical component of the forced evacuation of 120,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans from the West Coast to internment camps early in 1942. 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--'Enemy Alien' Classification 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 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 Geographic communities--California Geographic communities--Oregon Geographic communities--Washington Geographic communities--Arizona Identity and values--Issei World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence--Tule Lake strike Reflections on the past World War II--Incarceration camps--Construction
Place
Louisville, Kentucky Immigration Detention Stations--San Pedro Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Centers--Owens Valley Incarceration Camps--Gila River Incarceration Camps--Rohwer Immigration Detention Stations--San Francisco Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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