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Japans devstating attack
Pearl harbor attacked I woke up in the hospital wondering if i would survive when i heard that japanese planes have hit our naval supports. i wanted to go help but i heard that it was to late. They said it was unexspected for Japanese fighter planes to come in contact with U.S. naval boats and destroy them within 2 hours. A day after the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan and congess approved of this. -
Proclamation No. 2525
FBI warns against possession of cameras or guns by suspected "enemy" aliens
I remember when this proclamation was issued for the authorities to arrest enemy "aliens" to be detained. It was mostly individuals that have German, Itailian, Japanese in their ancestry and were considered potentially dangerous. My buddies and me went out to go get those aliens. -
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Japanese in WWII
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Re-registered "ENEMIES"
President Roosevelt orders re-registration of suspected "enemy" aliens in West.
I remember eating out with the guys and then we heard President Roosevelt speaking on the radio about the enemies still being in our territory. "Roosevelt couldn't stand to still hear about the enemies still being in our country, so He started to take steps into evacuating the enemies." The enemies from WWII would try to stay within our cities limits without us knowig that they were in. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066
i remember the day Roosevelt signed the Executive Order. On this day President Roosevelt signs a paper stating that Executive Order 9066 is to remove all people from military areas. In June, they moved more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans to remote internment camps. -
77th Congress
President Roosevelt signed Public Law 503 A month later after Febuary 1942, Congress implemented the relocation and internment policy by passing Public Law 503. Estimately 70,000 American citizens were denied the right to appeal their incarceration, and lost their homes and property. -
442nd Regimental Combat Group
href='http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/new_roles/442nd_infantry_regiment.html' >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.</a>Roosevelt approved of this special segregated Japanese American unit for combat. nearly 20,000 were serving in this combat unit and most served in the front lines. -
1943 Enrollment
1943 Military Enrollments
Men between the ages of 42 and 64 had enrolled during the fourth registeration -
June 6 D-Day
June 6 D-Day
Right after all the new recruits hve had serious training we had a special mission that foreshadowed the end of Hitlers dream of Nazi domination. We had over 150,000 people, 5,000 ships, and 11,000 airplanes. We kew that this was the day to end it all and were ready to do so. -
CANNOT contain loyal American citizens
In ex parte Endo, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that WRA has no authority to detain a "concededly loyal" American citizen.
During that year all of our attention was turned toward china. Everybody will be getting ready for a big attack on japan for what they did to our docks. We directed a series of B-29 raids against Japanese positions around Hangkow -
V-J Day!!!!!
V-J Day
I remember on August 14, 1945 when japan surrender to the allies and ending WWII. We also have used it for september 2, 1945, when Japan's formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
WRA Internment camps are closed except for Tule Lake Center
Tule Lake
I remember hearing about how Most of the Tuleans remained in the U.S., but nearly 4,500 of those who renounced their American citizenship left on ships for Japan in late 1944 and early 1945. Some still had to stay up unitl 1947 until they were moved to camps in Bismark, Santa Fe, and Crystal City, Texas.
