In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 establishing “Military Areas” and authorizing the Secretary of War to “remove from those areas anyone who might threaten the war effort.” Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II.
]]>The USS Arizona is the final resting place for many of the ship’s 1,177 crewmen who lost their lives on December 7, 1941.