US Army Map Entitled "Exclusion Areas"

Description:

This is the first of a series of three maps. It shows the areas from which all persons of Japanese ancestry were “evacuated by the Army in satisfaction of the impelling military necessity.” Shown are the 108 exclusion areas, each containing a population of approximately 1,000 people. From March 24 to August 11, 1942, more than 109,000 people were forced to leave their homes.

Attribution:

United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Facsimile. Source: “Sites in the western U.S. associated with the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II.” In: Burton, J., M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites.

Date:

1943