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  2. Gila River War Relocation Center - Wikipedia

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    The Gila River War Relocation Center was an American concentration camp in Arizona, one of several built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during the Second World War for the incarceration of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. [1] It was located within the Gila River Indian Reservation (over their objections) near the town of Sacaton ...

  3. Poston War Relocation Center - Wikipedia

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    Population. (September, 1942) • Total. 17,814. The Poston Internment Camp, located in Yuma County (now in La Paz County) in southwestern Arizona, was the largest (in terms of area) of the 10 American concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II . The site was composed of three separate camps arranged in a ...

  4. List of Japanese-American internment camps - Wikipedia

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    These camps often held German and Italian detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [ 1] Fort McDowell/Angel Island, California. Camp Blanding, Florida. Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Florence, Arizona. Fort Bliss, New Mexico and Texas.

  5. Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Americans were initially barred from U.S. military service, but by 1943, they were allowed to join, with 20,000 serving during the war. Over 4,000 students were allowed to leave the camps to attend college. Hospitals in the camps recorded 5,981 births and 1,862 deaths during incarceration.

  6. Executive Order 9066 - Wikipedia

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    No Japanese-American citizen or Japanese national residing in the United States was ever found guilty of sabotage or espionage. [14] There were 10 of these internment camps across the country called “relocation centers”. There were two in Arkansas, two in Arizona, two in California, one in Idaho, one in Utah, one in Wyoming, and one in ...

  7. Arizona during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Arizona's contribution to the Allied war effort was significant both in terms of manpower and facilities supported in the state. Prisoner of war camps were operated at Camp Florence and Papago Park, and there was an internment camp to house Japanese-Americans, most of them citizens, who had been forcibly deported from the West Coast.

  8. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda shares emotional family story from ...

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    This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. were ordered into internment camps during World War II, and the emotions have reverberated ...

  9. War Relocation Authority - Wikipedia

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    The War Relocation Authority operated ten Japanese-American internment camps in remote areas of the United States during World War II. The War Relocation Authority ( WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also operated the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee ...