Idaho Farm Colony Planned For Japanese From Coast

Idaho Farm Colony Planned For Japanese From Coast

Idaho Evacuation Western Washington Oles, Floyd Bendetsen, Col. Karl R. Western Defense Command White (Green) River Valley Opperman, Conrad J.

Japanese residents of Western Washington were to be sent to an internment camp in Idaho after first going to an assembly center in Puyallup. Meanwhile, steps were being taken to have others take over their farms so that there would be a continuous production of farm crops.

4/12/1942

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