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Internment Camps - Challenge To Democracy
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keywords: wwii, home front, japanese-americans, internment camp, relocation camp, detention center, deportation train, u.s. army nisei soldiers
Synopsis: Inside WWII Internment Camps in Arkansas and Wyoming for Japanese-Americans who were forcibly relocated from U.S. coastlines by the U.S. Government after naval forces of the Japanese Empire attacked Pearl Harbor Hawaii in a sneak attack prompting the United States to enter WWII...(read more)
- Date: 1942
- Duration: 00:18:11
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Internment Camps - Challenge To Democracy
Relocation of Japanese-American families from the Pacific Coast states of America to war internment camps after Pearl Harbor was attacked and America declared war on Japan and the Axis Powers.
Train traveling across western desert, Japanese-American families departing train under watchful eye of MPs (Military Police) in 1942.
Shows quarters at relocation centers in Arkansas and at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Family arriving at one of the barren single room apartments. Apartment after the family made the apartment livable. Cafeteria style mess hall. Low aerial view of land surrounding a detention center. Land was cleared, leveled, and irrigation ditches dug so the interned Japanese-Americans could produce much of their food. Japanese-Americans plowing, planting, harvesting crops. Japanese-Americans repairing vehicle. Sawmill cutting lumber at the Arkansas camp. Workers receiving pay. Shows the Community Enterprises Store No. 3 entrance sign and store at a center. Nisei children in classrooms and older youths learning trades.
Medical care is provided under the supervision of the U.S. Government. Doctors and dentist at work. Elections are held to make rules and regulations. Japanese-Americans playing baseball and other sports. Nisei attending church services. Japanese-American Boy Scouts preparing to raise the American flag. Entrance and inside of U.S.O. Club used by Nisei soldiers in the military that come to the center to visit family or friends. Harvest Festival Parade. Overview of barren main street of a relocation center, pan to U.S. Soldier with rifle standing guard duty at the internment camp.
Released Nisei working in a sugar beet field. Japanese-Americans after leaving internment camps and assuming normal life. Released Japanese-Americans working in a machine shop, as a nurse, on a farm, and many other occupations. Nisei soldiers run through an obstacle course after joining the United States Army.
