Document Related to the Mixed-Marriage/Mixed-Blood Policy of the U.S. WWII Concentration Camps
Wartime commanding general of the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army, John DeWitt, cancels all exemptions for mixed-marriage families who had recieved a reprieve from being sent to one of the Japanese American detention centers on the West Coast:
Citation:
W.K. Shaughnessy, "Memorandum on mixed marriage exemptions to evacuation," May 12, 1942, Project ID: sjs_fla_0556, John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records, SJSU Special Collections & Archives, San Jose State University Library, San Jose, CA, https://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16855coll4/id/6887(accessed February 3, 2022).
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