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Memo from Karl R. Bendetsen, Colonel, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, to [Nat L. Pieper, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Francisco Office], March 29, 1942

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Title: Memo from Karl R. Bendetsen, Colonel, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, to [Nat L. Pieper, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Francisco Office], March 29, 1942
Creator: Bendetsen, Karl R.: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-03-29
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Contact San Jose State University Department of Special Collections & Archives
Description: Contains orders for removal of family groups and individuals per Exclusion Order No. 3, March 30, 1942 to the Manzanar incarceration camp during the period of March 30, 1942-April 2, 1942, and assigns responsibility to the Federal Security Agency for administering a Civil Control Station in Los Angeles for "processing" the people forcibly removed. Also provided are details for how proceed with the removal and a distribution list of agencies and people who are to receive the memo.
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_1004
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/513
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Administration--Wartime Civil Control Administration
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--'Evacuation Day
Geographic communities--California
Place: Manzanar, California
Los Angeles, California
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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