In September of 1940, Japan took control of French Indochina, a country in which ended up being one of our allies. The United States chose to close all …show more content…
Because the camps were not completed, internees were often housed in stables, racetracks and buildings and various state fairs. After several weeks of living at a crowded assembly center, the Japanese-Americans traveled on another train to one of ten relocation centers. Tule Lake in California, holding almost nineteen thousand people, was the largest relocation center. (Japanese Americans at Manzanar). When internees arrived at Tule Camp, they received numbers to keep track of them. Like the center before, they were to live in poorly-built barracks with three or four other families and no furnishes. They were supplied with one army cot, one blanket and usually no mattress. Each family would get one room, and were separated from the other families in their barrack by a thin wall that did not reach the ceiling. The people within the barrack could hear yelling, screaming, and even snoring (Interview