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Guards at Santa Anita Assembly Center

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese Americans were relocated to temporary assembly centers before heading to the interment camps across the nation.

Photo courtesy of National Archive Digital Collection

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Santa Anita Guards- National Archive Item
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Scope and Content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Arcadia, California. Military police on duty in watch-tower at Santa Anita park assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees … More »


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