FINAL REPORT JAPANESE EVACUATION FROM THE WEST COAST 1942.

DeWitt, Lt. General J.L. FINAL REPORT JAPANESE EVACUATION FROM THE WEST COAST 1942. u.s. Government Printing Office. Cloth, 618 pgs, photos, charts, 3 foldout out maps, maps, glossary, 5 appendices and index. Contents include the Evacuation – Its Military Necessity; Evacuation – Its Development I Summary; Evacuation – The Mechanics for its Accomplishment; Evacuation – Its Operational Technique; Assembly Center Operations; Relocation of Evacuees; Related Activities of Wartime Civil Control Administration; Statistical and Fiscal Summary and Pictorial Summary. The folding maps are 1) Exclusion Areas; 2) Assembly Center Destinations; and 3) Relocation Center Destinations.

Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War in the Foreword states “This volume constitutes a comprehensive report on the evacuation from West Coast areas of persons of Japanese ancestry carried out by the Army in the interests of military security during the spring of 1942. The considerations which led to evacuation as well as the mechanics by which it was achieved, are set forth in detail. ….It was unfortunate that the exigencies of the military situation were such as to require the same treatment for all persons of Japanese ancestry, regardless of their individual loyalty to the United States. But in emergencies, where the safety of the Nation is involved, consideration of the rights of individuals must be subordinated to the common security. As General DeWitt points out, great credit is due our Japanese population for the manner in which they responded to and complied with the orders of exclusion.”

An extremely important report explaining the position of the United States government and the rationale for the removal of Japanese from the West Coast during WWII. Vg cond.