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To: BuckeyeTexan

Re “every Japanese man, woman and child (citizen, resident or illegal) on the West Coast was interned”.

Basically correct.

However, Japanese/Japanese Americans living elsewhere were allowed to stay and to work, often in war industries, or agricultural industries esp. on the East Coast.

Some were allowed to join the Army as interpretors and possibly radio intercept operators. Most combat soldiers were sent to Europe where any residual resentment against them would be minimal (i.e. the 442nd).

A few were sent to the Pacific, as were the Navaho code-talkers, Indian volunteers in the Army/Navy.

If the old Hollywood adage of “Location, Location, Location” had any real meaning, it was to those Japanese/Americans who lived on the West Coast at the start of WW2.

As I recall, most Japanese living in Hawaii were not interned. They might have been required to register with the military, depending on their citizenship or resident alien status, but I don’t remember any major roundup there (a few saboteurs and spies were arrested after Pearl Harbor).

Another area of history that needs more work.


203 posted on 02/06/2014 12:51:30 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
So Max, like total sympathy for those Japs who were really on our team and proved it, OK?

However, Reaper Dude, let's not forget that quite a few thousand Americans with ties to Germany, Austria, Italy, Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, etc. were also interned.... while other relatives were fighting their ass off for us. Even Joe Dimaggio's dad, with 3 sons in the US Army, had his fishing boat confiscated!

We are at war with militant Islam. Round'em up.

205 posted on 02/06/2014 8:44:11 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (This GOP is dead. What do we do now?)
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