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Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social |
The Pinedale camp was an "assembly center," where Japanese Americans from up and down the west coast were temporarily housed before being shipped to larger & more permanent camps for potentially infinite detention. The other Fresno camp was at the fairgrounds: inmates slept in the horse stalls.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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the Pinedale location was selected because it was a lumberyard, w/ preexisting access to rail lines & extant water lines, if not sewer. inmates slept in shacks made of unfinished lumber. the camp newspaper, "the Logger," references this prior usage. after May, 1942, it was a concentration camp.
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