On February 19th 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066. This Order authorized the Secretary of War to allocate Japanese-American citizens to work camps in Military areas in the Western United States. The second paragraph’s first sentence of the Order says “As ...
Yet when Fahy stood before the justices, Irons said, he told them "he stood by 'every sentence, every line and every word'" in an intelligence report that already had been debunked. Katyal's post may be the first time a Justice Department official has spoken so candidly about the mistake...
California. The camp was one of ten centers to which Japanese American citizens and Japanese resident aliens were held during World War II.LIBRARY OF CONGRESSIn the midst ofWorld War II(WWII), from 1942 to 1944, the U.S. Army evacuated Japanese Americans...
1941. He was the last foreigner to escape from occupied Shanghai and Japanese internment. His escape was very difficult but the family seems to have always been lucky. He had been warned by various people of impending
A team of military police drove the traitor, Patrick Heenan, to the harbor edge and carried out his death sentence with a pistol shot to the back of the head. The Red Caps let Heenan’s body tumble into the water. On the other side of the lines, the 25th Army’s logistics officer...
Today I found out about a Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II a full 29 years after the Japanese surrendered, because he didn’t know the war was over. Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese citizen that originally worked at a Chinese trading ...
three. In the trial, failure to report for the draft was only considered. The fact that we were being drafted from a concentration camp was not brought up. Only that we had broken the Selective Service Act. We were found guilty and given a 3 year sentence to serve in a Federal ...