A Japanese American from Bainbridge Island wrote back to tell everyone that their group arrived safely at the Manzanar camp and were settling down in their new living quarters.
Japanese on Bainbridge Island were making plans to evacuate as the Army barred any outside Japanese from entering the Island. Pictures showed them working, but they were mostly just waiting to see what happened next.
Paul Ohtaki, a former resident from Bainbridge Island who was evacuated to Manzanar, California, told about the journey to the internment camp and his impression of the camp in a letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Photo in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showing Japanese from Bainbridge Island walking to their train for evacuation while people watch from the Marion St. overpass.
A photo in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed Japanese/Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island being escorted by soldiers to a waiting train on their way to an evacuation reception center in Manzanar, California.
