Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SERVICEMAN's NAME WITHHELD Camp Roberts, Calif...
...letter to Commander Dealey's family, Vice Admiral C. A. Lockwood Jr., Pacific Fleet commander of submarines, wrote: "Sam will go down in history as the greatest officer in his line that the Navy has ever known." Said Commander Dealey's wife, in San Mateo, Calif.: "There is nothing much...
There were dozens of instances of friendliness: Ray Sato, a 27-year-old Nisei from Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
Enemies. At Auburn, Calif., a deputy sheriff named John L. Shannon said: "I haven't any more use for a Jap than I have for a rattlesnake, and I don't care a damn if the whole world knows...
Farmers crowded into the flag-draped town hall at Gardena, Calif, and applauded vociferously as Austrian-born John R. Lechner shouted: "We know the Japanese have super-submarines which carry 1,000 men-they're waiting for the return of California Japanese to start their invasion. They'll come in through the fog banks, led by 10,000 officers trained in American universities...