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1941 -1945
japanese during the WW2 -
pearl harbor ; A Teen tells thought on this
Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor starting at five till eight in the morning. Over 2,400 lives were lost on this tragic day.
I woke up early, as usual and heard many loud noises. I wasn’t sure what they were but I didn’t worry. I decided to go play outside and that’s when it hit me, that’s when I saw everything. was a bombing. A bombing was taking place, oh how I wanted it to end. -
Left with nothing and no options: A Japanese kid’s story.
The day right after Pearl Harbor was bombed, all bank accounts of citizens born in japan were frozen. Late afternoon my mother had went to the bank to get money in order to feed us. When she got there they wouldn’t give her service and told her two things. To leave, and her account was frozen. -
Why us? : A Japanese citizen’s story
Why us? : A Japanese citizen’s story
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 giving the military broad powers to ban any Japanese citizen from a fifty to sixty mile wide coastal area stretching from Washington State to California.
I will never know why all Japanese descendents are seen as the same. Anybody of any race could cause disasters and even good. Because of everything going on now, we are not wanted here. On we must go to somewhere where it will never be the same and try to -
Assisting them away: A military member authority story.
Assisting them away: A military member authority story.
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9102 creating the War Relocation Authority to assist person evacuated by the military.
On a day where someone is defiant it’s quite simple in getting rid of them. We just tell them to come with us and assist them away with members of the war relocation authority. The Problem is now gone. -
Not being able to make our own decisions: Story of a father.
President Roosevelt signed public law 503, which made it a federal offense to violate any order issued by a designated military commander under authority of an Executive.
Not being able to make my own choice whether to stay home and raise my family or go to the military would’ve been an easy one. Except, I didn’t get to choose , I was forced to leave my children in the care of someone else because I was ordered to go to the military -
Registration (loyalty questionnaire) of all persons over 17 years of age for Army recruitment, segregation and relocation begins at most of the internment camps. How loyal are they to the united states; A WRA workers story.
Everyday new young adults are brought to take this questionnaire to see how loyal the Japanese are to the United States. We found that they are loyal but don’t like being treated differently than others. We were wrong to assume they are all the same. -
My day at the Gila River internment camp: Ms. Eleanor Roosevelt’s story
Located in a valley within the Gila River Indian Reservation in Pinal County, 50 miles south of Phoenix, 3 miles north of the Sacaton Mountains.
On my visit I was accompanied by WRA National Director Dillon S. Myer. As we walked around I saw all the Japanese people keeping themselves entertained and I had conversations with few. -
DDAY :We won’t go for nothing less than full victory! : James Hollis Bearden’s story
160,000 Allied troops landed along a stretch of French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion. I was on a ship heading to the invasion. There were thousands of ships and planes. First they dropped bombs and next came the paratroopers. About two or three miles out from the beach, destroyers and cruisers sprayed the beachheads with gunfire. -
How are they gunna tell us our feeling?
In ex parte Endo, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that WRA has no authority to detain a "concededly loyal" American citizen. They used to make us take a series of questions to tell whether we were loyal or not. Now since the Supreme Court ruled they are not allowed to we have finally been given the will power explain through our own words how we feel. -
At last I am free! : 18 year old Japanese young adult’s story.
All Japanese American Regiment frees prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camps. I used to be kept as a prisoner on a site of an old factory from ww1 at a camp. There I met people from the same descendant and tried to go on living a regular life. -
V-J Day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II coming to an end.
I was living very close to where world war 2 was going on. I feared for my life. I didn’t know what to expect. Anything could’ve happened at anytime of the day. When it finally ended I gathered up my stuff and moved far away hoping to never witness something so horrible.
