US Army Map Entitled "Relocation Center Destinations"

Description:

This map shows the locations of the ten permanent Relocation Centers. The color scheme was designed to show the ultimate destination of each population group from the exclusion areas. According to the Army Command, the controlling considerations in the development and execution of the plan were “character of population, community balance, preservation of community and family units.”

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