Short-Term leave Authorization, WRA

Short-Term leave Authorization, WRA

California
Japanese Internment
Textual source

This source is a written authorization of leave written by the WRA (War Relocation Authority). The WRA was the agency tasked with handling the internment of people of Japanese Ancestry during the Second World War. The paper states that a ‘Thomas Michibiku Ozamoto’ currently in Manzanar camp was granted permission to go to Colorado to look for work. The paper states that he was required to return by the 2nd of June 1943 with no delay or unnecessary travel allowed. Stated on the top of the paper is that the paper is for Short Term Leave and is not a travel permit to re-enter the Western Defence Command.

Form published by War Relocation Authority, filled in by Thomas Michibiku Ozmato at Manzaner, California

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Provided by Mrs. Masa Ozamoto, on The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History – A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution

6 May 1943

Michael Wilsher

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Provided by Mrs. Masa Ozamoto, part of A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution, The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History

English

Textual - printed document

20th century California