Tag: Jana Leighton

Documents of Loss: Dave Tatsuno’s Records in the San Francisco Branch Evacuee Property Files

by ddancis, posted in Asian Pacific American Heritage, Electronic Records, Genealogy, Interior/Environment, WWII Home Front

Today’s post is written by Jana Leighton, an Archivist in the Electronic Records Division at the National Archives at College Park with support from Kaitlyn Crain Enriquez, Archives Technician in the Still Pictures Branch at the National Archives at College Park. In February of 1942 the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank was tasked with the … Continue reading Documents of Loss: Dave Tatsuno’s Records in the San Francisco Branch Evacuee Property Files

Japanese American Evacuee Property Letters

by ddancis, posted in Asian Pacific American Heritage, WWII Home Front

Today’s post is written by Jana Leighton, an Archivist in the Electronic Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. On February 19, 1942, two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 that allowed the Secretary of War to designate military areas and order evacuation of … Continue reading Japanese American Evacuee Property Letters