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Japanese Relocation - By Order Of The President
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keywords: wwii, home front, japanese-americans, internment camp, relocation camp, detention center, deportation train, deportation bus
Synopsis: Fearing that the West Coast of the United States could become a war zone after the WWII surprise attack on Pear Harbor Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an order to forcibly relocate Japanese-Americans to Internment Camps with scenes of potential targets for sabotage, notices posted requiring all Nisei families to register with the War Relocation Authority, temporary housing at the Santa Anita Race Track, relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:09:27
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Japanese Relocation - By Order Of The President
With the entrance of the United States into WWII, after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, the West Coast of the United States became a potential war zone. Milton S. Eisenhower explains the need for and methods of moving Japanese-Americans inland from the West Coast.
More than 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds American citizens, one-third aliens lived in the potential war zone along the coastal area America. The decision was made to move the Nisei families inland away from the military facilities and harbors along the West Coast.
Panning view of the San Francisco waterfront area, views of Japanese home located near air base, scenes of oil wells and storage tanks, aircraft plant, fishing boats in West Coast harbors. Shows notice being posted requiring all Nisei families to register with the War Relocation Authority which helped them sell or rent their homes, businesses, and farms. Shows moving vans used to move household goods and buses to transport the Japanese families to assembly centers. Shows shops and fishing fleets left behind.
Shows the facilities at the Santa Anita Race Track constructed to temporarily house the Japanese and the daily activities at this center. Shows construction of permanent re-location or internment camps for the Japanese-Americans in the inland western states and movement of the people by train and bus. Shows arrival of the Nisei at a newly built re-location camp and the organizational tasks at hand.
