WWII Japanese Internment Camp(01 of28)
Open Image ModalAn American soldier guards a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., May 23, 1943. (AP Photo) (credit:AP)
Japanese Relocation Center(02 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese evacuees arriving at Manzanar, Calif., a government reception center in the Owens River Valley, Calif., spent the evening of March 23, 1942 stuffing straw into sacks, these to serve as mattresses. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII US Internment 1943(03 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese evacuees from Pacific coastal regions now residing at the big reception center at Manzanar, Calif., were included in the nationwide draft registration in the 45 to 65 age group. C.E. Demorest, Inyo County board clerk, conducted the registration in one of the barracks, April 26, 1943. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
MANZANAR WAR RELOCATION CENTER(04 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese family life is preserved even at mealtime in the large mess halls of this war relocation center, as young and old gather around the table, at Manzanar, Calif., July 16, 1942. Evacuees are largely on their own, growing food and working insofar as possible in their usual jobs. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Japanense Internment(05 of28)
Open Image ModalAll members of the Chick-a-dee Japanese Girl\'s Softball Team were evacuated to this war relocation center from Los Angeles so they kept their outfit together and are still swinging at wild ones like this in Manzanar, California July 16, 1942. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Japanense Internment(06 of28)
Open Image ModalA group of Japanese evacuees moving into this war relocation authority center in Manzanar, California June 19, 1942. They seem cheerful enough. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(07 of28)
Open Image ModalFlorence Yamaguchi, left, and Kinu Hirashima, both from Los Angeles, under an apple tree at this war relocation authority center in Manzanar, California June 19, 1942 for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Miss Yamaguchi is a Nissel and Miss Hirashima, an Issei. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(08 of28)
Open Image ModalA scene at the ice cream bar in the community store at this war relocation authority center ion Manzanar, California June 19, 1942 where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. In foreground are, left to right: Florence Yamaguchi, Nancy Kawashimi and Floyd Fujiu, all from Los Angeles. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Japanense Internment(09 of28)
Open Image ModalGeorge S. Takemura, left, landscape Gardner from west Los Angeles, now occupies the showplace of Manzanar, California June 17, 1942, a war relocation authority center for Japanese. He has built a wishing well and other rustic articles for his quarters. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japanese Womens Softball Team(10 of28)
Open Image ModalMembers of the Chicka- Dee softball team from Los Angeles, chooses sides for a practice game at Manzanar, Calif., War Relocation Center, June 17, 1942. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Japanense Internment(11 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese evacuees from Pacific Coastal regions now residing at the big reception center at Manzanar, California April 26, 1942, were included in the nationwide draft registration in the 45 to 65 age group. C. E. Demorest into county board clerk conducted the registration in one of the barracks. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(12 of28)
Open Image ModalCarpenters rushed work on the first of 25 blocks of barracks at Manzanar, in Californiaâs Owens Valley March 19, 1942 in preparation for the first group of Alien and American â born Japanese to be evacuated from Southern California cities beginning March 23. Each block will have 14 barracks, recreation hall, mess hall, laundry and other service units. In addition, a 150-bed hospital will be erected for the model community. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(13 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese are making themselves comfortable in their barrack-like surroundings. They are helping the construction of building and planning farms for the future. A group surveys the lands in hope of starting a garden March 27, 1942. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
150- Bed Hospital At Relocation Camp(14 of28)
Open Image ModalA 150- bed hospital in Manzanar, Calif. has been provided by the U.S. government for Japanese evacuated from Pacific Coast cities and communities. Nurse Fumiko Gohata holds the arm of patient Frank Saito while Dr. James Goto stands by, March 27, 1942. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII US Internment 1942(15 of28)
Open Image ModalThe first day the Japanese reception center at Manzanar, Owens Valley, Calif., was in operation, the center\'s hospital did a big business, March 24, 1942. Here patient Sho Nakata is having an injured leg treated by Dr. James Goto and nurse Fumiko Gohata. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(16 of28)
Open Image ModalEnough vaccines to inocculate the 10,000 Japanese who will be in the Owens valley reception center, already are on hand and are shown with Dr. James Goto, in charge of the hospital at the center in California March 24, 1942. Each Japenese will be innocilated after arrival at the center. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japanese Internment Camp(17 of28)
Open Image ModalA picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, military nemesis of the Japanese forces, hung in a flace of honor, March 24, 1942 on the wall of the room of Gene Hashimoto (left) and Mary Wada was at the reception center established at Manzanar in the Owens Valley for Japanese evacuated from Los Angeles. Miss Hashimoto wrote friends at home of the new life at the hastily constructed community. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Day of Remembrance(18 of28)
Open Image Modal**FILE** In this March 24, 1942 file photo Japanese citizens wait in line for their assigned homes at an alien reception center in Manzanar, Calif. Many were forced from their homes in Los Angeles by the U.S. Army. The National Day of Remembrance, for the detention of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II, was observed around the country Thursday. (AP Photo, file) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
JAPANESE INTERNMENT(19 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese citizens wait in line for their assigned homes at an internment camp reception center in Manzanar, Calif., on March 24, 1942. Many were forced from their homes in Los Angeles by the U.S. Army. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Japanense Internment(20 of28)
Open Image ModalFirst arrivals at the Japanese evacuee community established in the owens valley at Manzanar, California March 23, 1942, part of a vanguard of 86 workers from Los Angeles, are assigned to quarters in the barracks. More than 800 were moved into the camp. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII US Internment Camps 1942(21 of28)
Open Image ModalGas stations at Mojave, Calif. did a land-office business when the convoy of automobile carrying Japanese aliens and citizens to the Manzanar reception center stopped to refuel, March 23, 1942. (AP Photo/John T. Burns) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(22 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese removed from their Los Angeles homes line up at the governmentâs alien camp at Manzanar, Calif. March 23, 1942 for their first meal after arrival at the camp. Rice, Beans, Prunes bread were included in the menu. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII North America United States Defense Aliens Japanese Internment Camps Manzanar(23 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese removed from their Los Angeles homes at the governmentâs alien camp at Manzanar, Calif., March 23, 1942. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japanese Women At Alien Reception Center(24 of28)
Open Image ModalThese Japanese women making themselves comfortable in their new quarters after their arrival March 23, 1942 at the Alien Reception Center at Manzanar, Calif.. Left to right: Shizuko Yarmada, Lillian Ito, and Mary Wada. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Train To Internment Camp(25 of28)
Open Image ModalYoung Japanese, members of the first mass migration from Los Angeles for the war\'s duration, wave goodbye March 23, 1942 from the steps of an army train taking them to the reception center being built at Manzanar, Calif. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese(26 of28)
Open Image ModalThe first of 350 such barracks to house 10,000 Japanese in Manzanar, Calif., evacuated from Southern California cities. Photo taken March 21, 1942. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
ABDUCTION REPARATION(27 of28)
Open Image ModalJapanese Latin Americans are shown in an unknown location en route to internment camps in the United States during World War II in this undated photo from the National Japanese American Historical Society. A class action suit against the United States was filed Wednesday, Aug 28, 1996, on behalf of the Japanese Latin Americans who were abducted and deported to the United States, then held to be exchanged for American prisoners of war. (AP Photo/National Japanese American Historical Society) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Post War Japan(28 of28)
Open Image ModalNine hundred and ninety one Japanese repatriates, most of them from an internment camp in Texas, boarded the liner Matsonian in Seattle, Washington for Japan on Dec. 7, 1945. This is a view of the Hiyarama family. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)