Documents Related to the Mixed-Marriage/Mixed-Blood Policy of the U.S. WWII Concentration Camps

Reprint of telephone transcript between Colonel Karl R. Bendetsen and his aide, discussing the Takayoshi case:

Citation:

Transcript of Telephone Call, John Hall to Karl Bendetsen, May 24, 1943, cited in “A Japanese Pure and Simple,” Raymond Okamura, Newsletter of the National Council for Japanese American Redress, Volume 3, No. 3, May 1985, p. 3; or Telephone conversation between Colonel Bendetsen and Captain Hall, May 24, 1943, Mixed Marriage Policy Files, Volume 2, 291.1, Box 28, Record Group 499, Central Correspondence, 1942– 1946, Wartime Civil Control Administration and Civil Affairs Division, Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army, Records of U.S. Army Defense Commands (WWII), National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

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A document from Tule Lake Japanese American Concentration camp about the story of the Murayama Family:

Citation:

“Document TL 16: The Murayama Family,” Case documents TL-10, 12-8 by family name [indicates pseudonym], Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, Compiled by Tamotsu Shibutani, compiler, Filename: cubanc6714_b266r21_0008_3.pdf, Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement records, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library.

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Excerpt from letter from manager of Tulare camp, describing the mixed marriage of a couple named Ramos, and at bottom how Mrs. Ramos, despite being Japanese, looks more like her husband, from the Philippines:

Citation:

Attachment to letter from Nils Aanonson to R.L Nicholson, June 10, 1942, "IN RE: Mrs. Mitsuko Komuro Ramos, USES #28745," General Correspondence File, Reel 149, Tulare Center Manager, Mixed Marriages/Evacuee, National Archives, San Bruno, CA.

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