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Attack on Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise attack for Pearl Harbor a total of 2,335 U.S. servicemen were killed and 1,143 were wounded. Sixty-eight civilians were also killed and 35 were wounded. I was in the kitchen cooking breakfast when all of a sudden I heard loud booming sounds, I looked outside and saw aircrafts shooting and bombing ships. -
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Japanese Internment Camps Timeline
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Time to Surrender
All suspected enemy aliens in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada were ordered to surrender all contraband, including short-wave radios, cameras, binoculars, and weapons. I remember talking to my dad and him telling me not to take my camera anywhere because any suspected enemy that had any cameras, binoculars, or radios were suppose to give them up. -
Roosevelt's Executive order 9066
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order, number 9066 giving the federal government the power to relocate 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps because they lived in residential zones now considered high-risk targets. I remember me and my family eating dinner when we heard police officers knocking down our front door I got scared I was carring my little sister and the police started to take my parents away and they also took me and my little sister. -
Japanese-American Internment
DeWitt established Military Area No. 1, covering nearly the entire west coast of the United States, and announced that all Japanese-Americans might be subjected to exclusion orders allowed by Executive Order 9066. I was my little brother when we heard our parents talking about some type of camps I was scared because I didn't know what was going to happen and I didn't want to get seperated from my family. -
Roosevelt signs Public Law 503
President Roosevelt signs Public Law 503, which makes it a federal crime for a person ordered to leave a military area to refuse to do so. When me and my family got to the Relocation Camps I was sad and I didn't like how the camps looked because we were fenced like if we were prisoners and guards guarding in front of these fences. -
Establishment of Relocation Field Offices
The first field area office was established in Chicago to supervise relocation activities throughout the midwestern states. Within weeks, additional offices were opened in Cleveland, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, and Denver. When I was little I remember going to school because of the relocation offices I remember having a bestfriend in the school that I went to and we would always sit together. -
The Question of Loyalty
The U.S. War Department and the War Relocation Authority (WRA) decided to test the loyalty of all people of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in the WRA camps.They required all those 17 years of age and older to answer a questionnaire.Their answers would be used to decide whether they were loyal or disloyal to the United States. When my brother turned 18 when we were in the Interment camps, he wanted to volunteer for the U.S military so he had to go and answer a questionnaire. -
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. While me and my family were in the Internment Camps we saw guards celebrating because they heard on the radio that the Allied troops had landed on the beach of Normandy, France. -
Korematsu vs. United States
Korematsu vs. U.S was a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Fred Korematsu, a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, Calif.—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II. When me and my father were in our home we listened to the radio that there was a case about a conviction of Fred Korematsu. At that time I didn't know what was going on because I was only 10 years old. -
VJ Day, the end of World War II
The announced surrender came nine days after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and six days after a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. I remember my mother telling me that the U.S had dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki and that the War was soon to be over I got happy when my mother told me that it was going to be over because I wanted to go home with my family. -
Tule Lake Center
The most tragic and divisive issue was created when Public Law 405 was passed by Congress and signed by President Roosevelt. This law, directed at Japanese Americans in Tule Lake, permitted an American citizen to renounce their citizenship in wartime. When we got out the Internment Camp, I heard my parents say that most of the Camps closed while Tule Lack Center didn't it didn't close till one year later.
