Posted on 02/19/2022 11:58:19 AM PST by Az Joe
Germans and Italians were both subjected to internment; it just wasn’t on such a large scale and the threat was much less. Japanese “balloon bombs” killed six people in eastern Oregon, and their subs came right up to the coast:
“On the night of February 21, 1942, the I-17 shelled the California coast at Santa Barbara, where the Ellwood Oil facility stood. In June 1942, two I-class subs prowled off the Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia coasts. On the 20th, the I-26 shelled the Estevan Point lighthouse on Canada’s Vancouver Island, and the I-25 shelled and torpedoed—but did not sink—a freighter off Cape Flattery, Washington. On September 9, a small plane catapulted from the deck of the I-25 and dropped an incendiary bomb in the thick forest of southern Oregon in hopes of starting a conflagration.”
You F’n newb
Right, it was his boat. They were lucky to be here, as Mussolini killed anyone they caught trying to leave.
The same thing civilized countries do in any war.
Sorry the caps offended you.
Keys got stuck.
If you surrender your rights everytime someone abuses them, you will soon find yourself with no rights at all.
Thomas Jefferson sends his regards.
Another story entirely.
I see.
So of we could have interred all German American and Italian-Anericans, that would have been acceptable?
Do you have any idea how many Anerican Soldiers in WW2 had German or Italian surnames?
You cam start with Eisenhower.
Uhh. would you approve rounding up German-Americam Citizensbor Itslian American Citizens?
Do you have a clue how many German American or Italian American or Japanese American citizens fought for America on WW2,?
No? Start with Eisenhower. Basilione. The Japanese-Americans who fought in Italy and Germany.
There is a difference between a CITIZEN and a RESIDENT FOREIGN NATIONAL.
Lots of Japanese Americans held dual citizenship...so many applied for visas to return to Japan, that the Ca. legislature had to pass a law restricting the number of visas issued during war time.
Anyway- German-American Citizens or Italian American Citizens, in the thousands, didn’t live in a concentrated area right at the coast and in ‘next door’ proximity to docks, railyards and aircraft mfg.
So many, so concentrated that Gen Still well said they couldn’t be monitored even IF he had the personnel and resources to do it.
Is that considered Mainland? If so, I stand corrected. The Aleutian Islands was a feint to draw forces away from Midway.
Most of us here secretly think you’re a jerk, so it tends to balance out over time.
I know what you mean...why is it kosher to round up Japanese and not Jews or Muslims or Christians?
The point of the publication seems to be about the unvaxxed, however. That’s the group du jour that folks want to round up and lock away.
You are correct... I wasn’t thinking about ‘mainland’
You’re right
No one would! They served admirably and with honor
The whole issue of interned Japanese Americans is about their numbers, concentration at our vulnerable coast and also because there was NO time or resources to pick and choose or to properly vet everyone. Period
It’s no secret. But that’s ok. I don’t think much of you either. But I have enough class not to say it in a public forum.
Thanks; like much of US history, people with half the true story Monday-morning quarterback (80 years later) and paint a worst-case scenario. I think everyone would rather be a Japanese in the US during the war than an American in Japan or Nazi Germany during the same period.
It shouldn’t have happened. But I’m not going to beat myself or anybody else up over it. Far worse things were going on back then.
FOR SURE
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