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TITLE Guards atop guard tower DESCRIPTION Guards atop guard tower Original caption: "Arcadia, California. Military police on duty in watch-tower at Santa Anita Park assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration." CONTEXT "I always thought to myself, "Would those GIs actually shoot my daughter if she happened to go near the fence?" I was almost tempted to say, "Go on there, Mimi. Go out there and pick that flower over there." See if the GIs..." Lili Sasaki, in Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps CREDIT Clem Albers Courtesy of National Archives DATE April 6, 1942 |
