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To the editor: I just read Capt. Lettunich's letter carried in your Readers Referendum June 19. Apparently the captain either has not been associated with the American-Japanese he speaks of, or his association has been so close that he has allowed it…

Date: 1945-07-13
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

San Francisco (Special) - . . . [Quoting Charles F. Miller, Supervisor, Northern California area of the War Relocation Authority]:"All major problems incidental to resettling evacuated people of Japanese ancestry in this area have been solved or are…

Date: 1946-02-06
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 5
Type: NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO - War Relocation authority, the war-time guardian of over 100,000 alien and native-born Japanese-Americans, is planning to go out of business not later than Jan. 2, 1946, says W.R. Cozzens, WRA's deputy director in charge of its western…

Date: 1945-06-05
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

BulletinWashington (UP) - Director Dillon S. Myer of the War Relocation Authority said Wednesday his agency is without authority to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry for more than brief periods unless they are charged with being disloyal…

Date: 1943-07-07
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

LOS ANGELES (UP) -Director Dillon S. Myer of the War Relocation authority Tuesday credited battle heroism of Japanese-Americans serving in the U.S. army with softening the opposition to their return to the Pacific coast.Myer, speaking at an…

Date: 1944-10-03
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-103.pdf

Santa Cruz High School students who served in World War II

Date: 1948
Source: World War II: Service Cardinal, 1948. Santa Cruz High School. Santa Cruz, CA: Santa Cruz High School, 1948.
Type: ARTICLE

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Bill Foote was scheduled for a promotion and rotation home when he ran into Biak Island.

William R. Foote was born on November 29, 1922, in California, to Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Foote. He and his brother Ronnie grew up in Santa Cruz and attended…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

December 24, 1941, was not the joyful holiday that Loiya Burns had prepared for her husband.

William Richard Burns was born about 1906. No information is available as to his parents, place of birth, siblings or formative years.

Burns joined…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

Monde was a "Mustang" artillery lieutenant with an address in Santa Cruz.

Second Lieutenant William Monde was born in Idaho in 1910. Later he declared Santa Cruz County, California, as his residence. Information regarding his parents, siblings,…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

Watsonville lost two of its residents, William M. Weeks and Eugene V. Upton Jr. when the USS Franklin was bombed.

On November 24, 1921, William Michael Weeks was born in Watsonville to Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Weeks. The Weeks family also included…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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