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Pearl Harbor Attack
http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/Attack-Pearl-Harbor.htm On december 7,1941 the japanese launched a surprise air strike on the naval base in hawaii that killed more than 2,400 people.
I was patrolling the naval base when i saw dozens of enemy airplanes flying over the base and started to shoot and drop bombs on innocent civilians killing thousands. -
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Pearl Harbor
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President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066
gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. -
Secretary of War Henry Stimson announced plans to form an all-Japanese American Combat team to be made up of volunteers from both the mainland and Hawaii.
Secretary of War Henry Stimson announced plans to form an all-Japanese American Combat team to be made up of volunteers from both the mainland and Hawaii. -
Presidential Proclamation no.2525
provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety. -
WCCA acquires sites for temporary detention centers in California at Merced, Tulare, Marysville, and Fresno.
The Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) was an agency set up as part of the Western Defense Command to implement the mass forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. -
Registration (loyalty questionnaire) of all persons over 17 years of age for Army recruitment, segregation and relocation begins at most of the internment camps.
In January 1943, federal officials announced that Japanese Americans, including those held in incarceration camps, would be allowed to volunteer for a racially segregated U.S. Army unit. -
December 18 Korematsu v U.S.: the U.S. Supreme Court rules that one group of citizens may be singled out and expelled from their homes and imprisoned for several years without trial, based solely on their ancestry.
U.S. Supreme Court rules that WRA has no authority to detain a "concededly loyal" American citizen. -
June 6 D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
April 29 442--All Japanese American Regiment frees prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camps
In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 persons from all over Europe were imprisoned here and in the numerous subsidary camps. 41.500 were murdered. On April 29 1945, American troops liberated the survivors. -
August 15 V-J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. -
Oct 15- Dec 15 All WRA Internment camps are closed except for Tule Lake Center
Tule Lake was chosen as the camp where "disloyals" would be isolated. Tule Lake became "Tule Lake Segregation Center" in the fall of 1943. At that time, "loyal" Tuleans were supposed to be moved to another camp while "disloyals" from the other camps came to Tule Lake; however, many such "loyals" declined another move and stayed on at Tule Lake.
