All Japanese Ordered Out of Portland

All Japanese Ordered Out of Portland

Portland, OR DeWitt, Lt. Gen. John L. Western Defense Command Multnomah County Clackamas County Pacific International Livestock Exposition Hass, Lt. Col. Martin F. Evacuation

All of Portland's Japanese residents were to be evacuated in one fell swoop and sent to an assembly center at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition grounds. Portland was to be the first major Pacific Coast city to be completely evacuated of Japanese.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

4/29/1942

1900.6026