In 1942, Lieutenant James Glatt (left) and Lieutenant Cal Ferris (right) reviewed evacuation details as the last 300 residents of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their Redondo Beach homes and sent to a temporary detention center in Arcadia, CA.
Dressed in uniform marking service in the First World War, this veteran enters Santa Anita Assembly Center, one of the first stops for persons of Japanese ancestry forcibly removed from the West Coast.
Families lived in barracks at Tanforan Assembly Center in buildings originally built to house horses. The Assembly Center was opened two days before the photograph was taken. The army painted the floors and walls of the stables, but the odor of horse urine and manure remained. San Bruno, CA.
