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Civilian Exclusion Order, No. 41
In February 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which granted the secretary of war authority to designate regions as critical to U.S. security and to relocate populations residing in them to military detention centers. Based on this authority, the U.S. military deported more than 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast to relocation camps for the duration of World War II. On May 5, 1942, the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army posted this notice requiring the evacuation of all ethnic Japanese residing in the San Francisco neighborhood of the Presidio. |