Puyallup Fair Grounds To Be Used For Japs

Puyallup Fair Grounds To Be Used For Japs

Puayllup Fairgrounds Newton, Les Building Laborers' Local No. 252 Tacoma Building Trades Council Puyallup Chamber of Commerce DeWitt, Lt. Gen. John L. Western Defense Command Santa Anita Bainbridge Island Manzanar, CA

Preparations were being made to develop the Puyallup Fairgrounds as an assembly center to accept Japanese who were to be evacuated from the West Coast. Already the Santa Anita racetracks were being converted to an assembly center in California. Meanwhile, Bainbridge Island Japanese were preparing for their evacuation to a reception center in Manzanar, California.

R.B. Bermann

03/00/42

INT 5 R2 P99

1900.5839