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WWII relocation and internment of Arroyo Grande, California Japanese-Americans

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published August 2, 2017 at 2:31 AM PDT
Japanese-American families board busses for internment camps during WWII

On February 19th 1942 FDR signed Executive order 9066 requiring the relocation and internment of all California coastal residents of Japanese descent. Historian Jim Gregory, author of WWII Arroyo Grande shares the sorrows and triumphs of the dramatic period in Arroyo Grande history—a time when more than forty percent of the high school student body was of Japanese ancestry.

Japanese boys interned at Manzanar look past the fence
Credit NPS
Japanese boys interned at Manzanar look past the fence

Japanese-Americans en route to internment camp during WWII
Japanese-Americans en route to internment camp during WWII

U.S. Army posting of Executive Order 9066

U.S. Army posting of Executive Order 9066
Credit Museum of History and Industry
U.S. Army posting of Executive Order 9066

Click here to view WWII U.S. Office of War Relocation Authority video about relocation of Japanese following Executive Order 9066

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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