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  • "Table 1. Wartime Properties Identified in Public Law 102-248" (PART 1), from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 15 crop).jpg

    Photo by United States National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • "Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers map, from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 118 crop) (cropped).jpg

    Photo by United States National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • "Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers map, from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 118 crop).jpg

    Photo by United States National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Harvey Akio Itano - NARA - 537776 (cropped).jpg

    Photo by Dorothea Lange via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Sacramento, Calfiornia. View of Sacramento Assembly center seen across fields from road which appro . . . - NARA - 537793.jpg

    Photo by Dorothea Lange via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Sacramento, California. Another family of Japanese ancestry has just arrived at this Center by bus. . . . - NARA - 537796.jpg

    Photo by Dorothea Lange via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Sacramento, California. Another of the young students of Japanese ancestry just evacuated who has c . . . - NARA - 537791.jpg

    Photo by Dorothea Lange via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Sacramento, California. Bill Fujii, evacuee of Japanese ancestry, who has completed three years in . . . - NARA - 537781.jpg

    Photo by Dorothea Lange via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

Camp Kohler was located in the northeast corner of unincorporated Sacramento County, California, United States, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1947. Initially a camp for migrant farm workers, it became the Sacramento Assembly Center a temporary detention center for interned Japanese Americans in 1942. The site is one of 12 California assembly centers that share designation as California Historical Landmark No. 934. From 1943 to 1945 the camp was a training center for US World War II forces.

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