Christmas 1943: casualties in Italy and a hostile debate over return
News from Italy opened this issue: the War Department identified two Japanese Americans from Hawaii killed and 66 wounded in…
Print Issue: 1943
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December 1943: Nisei casualties in Italy and the fight over the WRA
Word from the Italian front opened the issue: the War Department named two Japanese American soldiers killed and 33 wounded,…
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Japanese Americans in combat in Italy and the Korematsu ruling, 1943
Two stories ran side by side in this eight-page issue: Japanese American soldiers in the fighting in Italy, and the…
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Nisei soldiers killed in Italy, and the fight over Tule Lake
The war news on the front page was grim: Secretary of War Stimson announced that 34 Japanese American soldiers of…
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Biddle on the treatment of Japanese Americans, and the Tule Lake inquiry
Attorney General Francis Biddle’s Armistice Day address in New York led the issue. He spoke of the Japanese, the Jews…
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Tule Lake in the news, and a governor who defended Japanese American rights
Tule Lake dominated the news in this eight-page issue. The front page reported the arrest of six men after a…
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Tule Lake and its aftermath, and two Nisei soldiers wounded in Italy
The disturbances at the Tule Lake segregation center filled this 8-page issue. The front page reported a sitdown strike by…
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Nisei soldiers in Italy and martial law at Tule Lake
Two stories from opposite sides of the war ran side by side in this eight-page issue. John Lardner and H.…
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The 100th Infantry Battalion’s first combat test in Italy
The first combat test of the 100th Infantry Battalion in Italy was the main news of this eight-page issue. The…
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Nisei soldiers in Italy and fair play at home, October 1943
News from the Italian front led this eight-page issue. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson disclosed that Lt. Gen. Mark…
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Attack on the Provo labor camp and Nisei troops in Italy
Two stories shared the front page of this eight-page issue. In Provo, Utah, shots fired into a War Food Administration…
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Hawaii’s view of the forced removal, and a new western commander
News from Hawaii shaped this eight-page issue. A reporter told the San Jose Lions Club that many in the islands…
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Roosevelt’s letter to the Senate and the limits on returning to the West Coast
President Roosevelt’s letter to the Senate of September 14 led this 8-page issue, commending the role Japanese Americans had played…
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Roosevelt’s letter on loyalty and the move to Tule Lake
President Roosevelt told the Senate that “the great majority” of persons of Japanese ancestry were loyal to American democratic institutions,…
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Wyoming Legion backs evacuees, and Nisei soldiers train at Camp Shelby
Support for Japanese Americans came from an unexpected quarter on the front page, where delegates to the Wyoming state American…
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Tule Lake security, Hawaiian swimmers and the fight over West Coast race-baiting
Life for Japanese Americans in the incarceration camps (often called internment) and outside them ran through this eight-page issue. Nisei…