Western Defense Command

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Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942 (Revised) (ddr-densho-405-40)
Letter rescinding individual exclusion order for Arthur Emi (ddr-densho-122-445)
Response from Arthur Emi to Western Defense Command Hdqtrs re: exclusion order (ddr-densho-122-444)
Memo to Arthur Emi from Western Defense Command Hdqtrs (ddr-densho-122-443)
Teletype messages regarding changing the Western Defense Zone (ddr-densho-356-890)
Notice and General Instructions to Japanese Seeking Repatriation (ddr-densho-356-976)
Letter from James Brell, CWO USA, Actg Asst Adj Gen, to Mr. Fumio Fred Takano, June 21, 1945 (ddr-csujad-42-111)
Leave permit identification card (ddr-csujad-42-109)
Letter from B. Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command to Mr. Fumio Fred Takano, 1945 (ddr-csujad-42-128)
Contraband articles: Western Defense Command (ddr-csujad-55-864)
Instructions to evacuees regarding disposition of motor vehicles (ddr-csujad-46-28)
Personal property form (ddr-csujad-46-29)
Certificate change of residence notice, Form PM-2, Tomosuke Masukawa (ddr-csujad-38-542)

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doc Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942 (Revised) (ddr-densho-405-40)

The revised copy of the Final Report

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-405-40/

doc Letter rescinding individual exclusion order for Arthur Emi (ddr-densho-122-445)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-445/

doc Response from Arthur Emi to Western Defense Command Hdqtrs re: exclusion order (ddr-densho-122-444)

Emi's challenge to the restriction to Heart Mountain and exclusion

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-444/

doc Memo to Arthur Emi from Western Defense Command Hdqtrs (ddr-densho-122-443)

Prohibiting Emi from the West Coast, Eastern Defense Command and Southern Defense Command, includes definition of exclusion zones

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-443/

doc Teletype messages regarding changing the Western Defense Zone (ddr-densho-356-890)

Two teletyped messages to J. G. Lindley from D.S. Myer regarding the change of the Western Defense Zone boarder in Arizona. Item stapled together with ddr-densho-356-887, 890, 902, 906 and 907.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-890/

doc Notice and General Instructions to Japanese Seeking Repatriation (ddr-densho-356-976)

Information from the Western Defense Command and the Wartime Civil Control Administration on how to apply for repatriation to Japan.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-976/

doc Letter from James Brell, CWO USA, Actg Asst Adj Gen, to Mr. Fumio Fred Takano, June 21, 1945 (ddr-csujad-42-111)

A letter from James Brell, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Chief Warrant Officer, Western Defense Command, United States Army, to Fumio Fred Takano in the Gila River incarceration camp. The letter informs that Fumio's exclusion status has been changed and he is authorized to travel and reside within the West Coast exclusion zone. It also instructs him …

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-42-111/

img Leave permit identification card (ddr-csujad-42-109)

A leave permit identification card issued for Mariko Mollie Hirashima on April 19, 1945. It certifies that she "may travel and reside within the areas of Western Defense Command heretofore prohibited to persons of Japanese ancestry." Mariko is one of the daughters of Itsuhei and Tomoye Takano and incarcerated in the Manzanar incarceration camp during the …

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-42-109/

Letter from B. Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command to Mr. Fumio Fred Takano, 1945 (ddr-csujad-42-128)

doc Letter from B. Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command to Mr. Fumio Fred Takano, 1945 (ddr-csujad-42-128)

A letter from B. Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command to Fumio Fred Takano. It informs that Public Proclamation no. 24 revokes all individual exclusion orders and certifies that his exclusion is terminated. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tak_01_68_001

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-42-128/

doc Contraband articles: Western Defense Command (ddr-csujad-55-864)

List and description of items classified by the Western Defense Command as contraband. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0866

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-864/

doc Instructions to evacuees regarding disposition of motor vehicles (ddr-csujad-46-28)

Motor Vehicle Registration Form and agreement, WCCA form FRB-3, for "evacuees" to deliver to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csus_nac_0028

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-46-28/

doc Personal property form (ddr-csujad-46-29)

Personal property form, WCCA form FRB-2, including inventory checklist, to be submitted to Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csus_nac_0029

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-46-29/

doc Certificate change of residence notice, Form PM-2, Tomosuke Masukawa (ddr-csujad-38-542)

A certificate change of residence notice, Form PM-2, for Tomosuke Masukawa issued by a postmaster in Reedley, California. Form PM-2. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_08_001

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-542/