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TITLE Colonel Bendetsen receiving Distinguished Service Cross DESCRIPTION Colonel Bendetsen receiving Distinguished Service Cross Original Signal Corps caption: "San Francisco, California. Colonel Brinson at left assists as General DeWitt awards the Distinguished Service Cross to Colonel Bendetsen for his excellent work in evacuating Japanese from vital coast areas." CONTEXT Major Bendetsen came up with the plan that would become Executive Order 9066, transforming the Japanese American issue under the Justice Department into a more legally-defensible military issue that made no mention of race. He was given two promotions in ten days and was made Director of the Wartime Civilian Control Administration. CREDIT Signal Corps Courtesy of National Archives DATE December 2, 1942 |
