Historical Timeline: 1942
February 21, 1942
About 200 detainees at Sand Island in Hawai’i are transferred to mainland detention centers. Meanwhile, those held at camps on the neighboring islands are transferred to Sand Island.
Within the next two years, more detainees from Sand Island are shipped out to the mainland.
February 1942
In Bataan, Philippines, Richard Sakakida and Arthur S. Komori handwrite and distribute surrender appeals for Japanese soldiers in one of the war’s earliest attempts at psychological warfare.4
Manzanar. Courtesy of Dorothea Lange, War Relocation Authority.
General John L. DeWitt. Courtesy of the United States Army Center of Military History.
USS Yorktown is hit by a Japanese aerial torpedo during the Battle of Midway. Courtesy of the United States Navy.
A 2d Marine Division patrol wades through one of Guadalcanal’s many tropical lagoons. August 1942. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps.
An ATIS “scanning conference.” A Nisei linguist at the far right scans a captured enemy document. Col. Sidney Mashbir (seated fifth from left) and officials (including a Chinese General) look on and listen. Courtesy of the United States Army.