Following evacuation orders, this store was closed.   The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the &quot;I AM AN AMERICAN&quot; sign on the store front the day after Pearl Harbor.  Oakland, CA, April 1942.  Dorothea Lange. (WRA)
Exact Date Shot unknown
NARA FILE #:  210-G-2A-35
WAR &amp; CONFLICT #:  772

I am an American

Forming a U.S. Coast Guard shield, high school students at Long Beach, Calif. make a striking appeal for the support of the current 7th War Loan drive, in which every purchase of a war bond helps to land that knockout blow against the Japs.  Ca. 1945. (Coast Guard)
Exact Date Shot unknown
NARA FILE #:  026-G-4548
WAR &amp; CONFLICT #:  770?

7th War Loan

Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa  Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro.  Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers.  Arcadia, CA, April 5, 1942.   Clem Alberts. (WRA)
NARA FILE #:  210-G-3B-414
WAR &amp; CONFLICT #:  780