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American Concentration Camps

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II.

We left Japanese American Concentration Camps to Serve in the U.S. Army. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government incorrectly and selectively corralled Japanese American families on the West Coast into scattered concentration camps in the wastelands and deserts of California, Arizona, Arkansas, and Wyoming. Incredibly, after a few months U.S. Army recruiters came to the camps to recruit youthful incarcerated citizens ostensibly to serve in the army. Even as our families remained interned behind guard towers during the duration of the war, 165 young men from Uptown-St. Mary's volunteered to serve in the Army.

Watch tower at Manzanar

Watch tower at Manzanar.

Ten concentration camps were hurriedly developed in the wasteland of America from California in the west to as far east as Arkansas.

Ten concentration camps were hurriedly developed in the wasteland of America from California in the west to as far east as Arkansas.


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