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APM reports documentary: Order 9066 (Episode 2)

Order 9066
Order 9066
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Episode 2 of the APM Reports documentary, "Order 9066," about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. From the beginning, there was resistance to incarceration. Many Japanese Americans in the camps fought for their rights as citizens, and the opposition grew over time.

The War Relocation Authority tried to extract loyalty pledges from those incarcerated and enlist them for military service. This chapter chronicles the brave service of thousands of Japanese Americans, including the men of the 422nd Regimental Combat Team, which became one of the most decorated military units in the European Theater in World War II.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, just months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to one of ten "relocation" camps, where they were imprisoned behind barbed wire for the length of the war. Two-thirds of them were American citizens.