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Table of Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Essay
Brief History
Gila River
Granada
Heart Mountain
Jerome
Manzanar
Minidoka
Poston
Rohwer
Topaz
Tule Lake
Isolation Centers
Add'l Facilities
Assembly Centers
DoJ and US Army Facilities
Prisons
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
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Confinement and Ethnicity:

An Overview of World War II
Japanese American Relocation Sites
by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord
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Chapter 17 (continued)
Department of Justice and U.S. Army Facilities
U.S. Army Facilities
Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Figure 17.53. Area 2400, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
(from Walls 1987)
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Near Lawton, Oklahoma, Fort Sill held some 350
Japanese American Issei who had been first interned at Fort Missoula
(Van Valkenberg 1995). It was at Fort Sill that a Japanese Hawaiian
internee, distraught over leaving his wife and 12 children behind, was
shot and killed by guard while trying to escape. He was crying "I want
to go home, I want to go home" as he climbed the barbed wire fence in
broad daylight (Saiki 1982).
The Fort Sill Military Reservation is now the
headquarters of the U.S. Army Field Artillery. The old fort area
established in 1869 is now a National Historic Landmark. It is not clear
where on the expansive military base the Japanese Americans were held,
but the current fort archeologist noted that in "Area 2400" southwest of
Sheridan and Hunt Roads a German POW camp was located (Spivey, personnel
communication, 1999). It seems likely that the POW camp and Japanese
American internment camp were one and same, as at other U.S. Army
facilities. The area has been cleared for the most part and some new
buildings have been constructed in the area (Figure 17.53). It is not
known if slab foundations still present at the site date to the
internment.
Continued

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