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Sacramento, CA
Sacramento, California, the state capital, had been the gateway to the California Gold Rush and the western anchor of the transcontinental railroad. Surrounded by some of the most fertile land in the west, it was a diverse farming town of 106,000. Almost 7,000 Japanese Americans also lived there and in the surrounding county. Under Executive Order 9066, anyone of Japanese descent was designated "enemy alien" and evacuated inland to internment camps. Sacramento's wartime transformation from small town state capital to big city would prove permanent. Of those who served in the military, 556 Sacramento residents gave their lives during the war.
Sacramento, California, the state capital, had been the gateway to the California Gold Rush and the western anchor of the transcontinental railroad. Surrounded by some of the most fertile land in the west, it was a diverse farming town of 106,000. Almost 7,000 Japanese Americans also lived there and in the surrounding county. Under Executive Order 9066, anyone of Japanese descent was designated "enemy alien" and evacuated inland to internment camps. Sacramento's wartime transformation from small town state capital to big city would prove permanent. Of those who served in the military, 556 Sacramento residents gave their lives during the war.
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The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.
Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)
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Asako Tokuno and her husband, Shiro. February 10, 1945.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Maida Tukuno was born in 1923 in Oakland, grew up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Richmond, California. Her parents, Japanese immigrants, ran a successful flower nursery. She was a freshman at Berkeley in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her parents were forced to leave the West Coast . . .
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Asako Tokuno, after the war, in her family's nursery
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Tokuno performs household chores. 1943. Tokuno was interned at the Topaz Camp near Delta, Utah.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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I would get this terrible feeling that people were watching, looking at me.
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Barbara Covington was born on February 16, 1924 in Sacramento. Her mother's family came to Oroville, California in the 1870s. Her father James William Covington had been president of the NAACP in Sacramento in the 1920s, but died when Covington was 3-1/2 years old. Covington moved with . . .
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Sacramento's Barbara Covington and Jeroline Green at a Halloween dance. Both worked at McClellan Air Force Base during the war.
Source: Barbara Perkins
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Barbara Covington at a picnic at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento. Covington worked there as a typist.
Source: Barbara Perkins
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Dressing up was hard to do when shoes were made of cardboard and came in only a few colors.
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Burnett Miller was born on September 2, 1923 in Sacramento. His father ran a successful lumber business. Miller was a sophomore in ROTC at Santa Clara College when the war began. In May of 1943, he was called to active duty and after basic training entered the Army Specialized Training . . .
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Sacramento's Burnett Miller takes a break from the fighting in Europe. Miller participated in the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Source: Burnett Miller
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Sacramento was a fun place for a kid to grow up.
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Samples of letters home written by Burnett Miller
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We came home and said goodbye to our parents. We had no idea what we were getting into.
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Burt Wilson was born January 24, 1933 and grew up in a well to do neighborhood in Sacramento. His father was an engineer at the Luppen and Hawley Plumbing Company. Wilsons mother and maternal grandparents were German and he had cousins and aunts and uncles in Germany and sent them . . .
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Burt Wilson sits on the steps reading the comics.
Source: Burt Wilson
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Exterior of Burt Wilson's childhood home, Sacramento ca. 1940.
Source: Burt Wilson
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As a delivery boy for The Sacramento Bee, Burt Wilson followed the war through the maps printed on the front page. He talks about the Battle of the Bulge
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The war meant airplanes to kids.
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