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Japanese American Internment Facts. Limited to what they could take with them many internees lost the bulk of their possessions. Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Utah State Historical Society. A family is pictured standing outside a tar paper shack at Topaz Utah in this undated photo.
Each internee was sent to one of 16 assembly centers. Utah State Historical Society. Japanese-Americans before the internment Japanese immigrants came to America for getting better life. Declared war on Japan. From 1942 to 1945 it. The WRA decided early in the internment process that the Japanese Americans detained in the camps should be allowed to make a living but that under no circumstances should they be paid more than the lowest salary paid to Americans serving in the military 19 per month.
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Limited to what they could take with them many internees lost the bulk of their possessions. Yesterday December 7 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. On February 19 1942 little more than two months after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the United States entrance into World War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. Each internee was sent to one of 16 assembly centers. Japanese American internment the forced relocation by the US.