Account of arriving at Manzanar Relocation Center
“When we got to Manzanar, it was getting dark and we were given numbers first. We went down to the mess hall, and I remember the first meal we were given in tho...
Tag: WWII
Kazuo Otani earns the Medal of Honor
Kazuo Otani was born in Visalia, a small town of a few thousand in California, to parents who were immigrants from Japan. He was living in the Gila River War Re...
Portrait of a boy during the war, London, 1945
“I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble…he was looking up at the sky, his ...
June Wandrey: “I wept uncontrollably, my tears falling on poor Sammy’s bandaged remains.”
Dearest family, Despite Sammy’s desperate battle to live, he slipped away just as morning broke. It broke my heart. Desperately tired, hungry, and sick of the...
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