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Japs have struck Pearl Harbor
Through A Victims eyesThe Japanese have raided Pearl Harbor causeing terror outbreak among many americans. It was around Breakfastime. Im eating cereal as i lift my spoon up for a bite and world begins to shake beneath my feet, i hear the explosions of bombs all around me. I run outside to see what it was and the gory sight appalled me. Bloddy people everywhere, -
Banks frozen on me, panick arizes: Japanes Americans story
Frozen Banks for Japanese.
Treasury Department seizes all Japanese banks and businesss. I Hear it on my radio, Bank accounts are frozen to all Japanese Americans. Panick escalated rather quickly in my family. Not only are they takeing jobs from us for something we didnt even do personally, but now they are takeing all our money we already had. My father will be out of work, no food on our table, this is terrible. -
Aliens no longer have protection, goodbye rights.:Japanese point of view
EnemyAttorney General freezes travel by all suspected "enemy " aliens, orders surrender of weapons.
I can no longer protect myself, im forced to surrender all weapons. im an automatic enemy just because my race did something unthinkable. something i had NOTHING to do with. -
President forces the Japanese to be relocated
say bye bye.
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066
My name is Aika, my Family was haveing a normal day but then we heard the awful news, the president has sent troops out to gather all Japanese and relocate them, meaning me and my family are going to be thrown into internment camps. -
LA Japanese are squished into a temporary detention center
Japanese Manzanara CampFirst large contingent of Japanese and Japanese Americans moved from Los Angeles to the Manzanar temporary detention center operated by the Army in the Owens Valley of California.
The place ive been sent to sucks. There are eight of us in a 20-by-25-foot room. everything is so hard people cramming into me everywhere i go, Im 18 and being treated as a prisioner, i want out. -
Combat team assembles.
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.
Hurd about it from the guy across the street and its time to volunteer, time to join this combat team. its a scary thought leaveing my family and going out knowing the country is against my people, but i can do it. -
a mother forced to join the army:Tinas story
InternmentRegistration of all persons over 17 years of age for Army recruitment, segregation and relocation begins at most of the internment camps.
Im an 19 year old, single mother, and im forced to join the army. have no choice but to register, no choice but to leave my child. laying in bed shakeing scared is what ill have instead of stareing at my beautiful boys eyes. This is an emotional night in my life. -
D-Day from Patton's View
D-Day
Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.
My names General Patton and im in charge of the "fake army" on the shore of england. we have our battle plan in tact and we are ready to go. ready to be the distraction. -
Finally the Seperation is a quit.
Closure of camps The WRA announced that all internment camps would be closed before the end of 1945 and the entire WRA program would be liquidated on June 30, 1946
Working with the WRA has been a large part of my life for so long, and i hear the news that this program will no longer be here, ill be out of work. hard to believe after years there is an end to this all. -
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442--All Japanese American Regiment frees prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camps. -
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V-J Day
