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about Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1988 • 1989 This series contains personal descriptive data about Japanese Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II in the states of ...

National Archives Identifier: 574045 Creator: Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division. 12/9/1 957-

Evacuee Case Files, 1942-1946 This series consists of case files of Japanese aliens and Japanese American residents on the West Coast who were interned in relocation centers maintained by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. The centers were in the st...

National Archives Identifier: 891305 HMS Entry Number(s): Pl-77 22 Creator: Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946

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Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 -1989

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World War II Army Enlistment Records, compi led 6/1/2002- 9/30/2002, documenting the period ca. 1938-

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Series from Record Group 64: Records of t he National Archives and Records Administ ration

NARA ID: 1263923 ERA ID: 12 . .3384.0 .10 XMIS: 079348 Prepared: 12/ 16/ 2010

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