What camp, started by the United States War Department was used as a military training facility and a detention for American citizens of Japanese descent located in New York?
Camp Upton Camp Upton was an installation of the United States Army during World War I. During World War II it was used to incarcerate American citizens of Japanese descent. It was located in Yaphank on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. It was located near Camp Mills.
Asian American women in World War II Asian American women during World War II served many crucial functions that tend to be overlooked, or erased entirely, from modern history books. Women’s roles are under-appreciated or unmentioned in the context of war; these women, however, were tasked with various duties that greatly aided American forces going into combat. Japanese American women, known as “Nisei”, contributed to war efforts by providing medical care as nurses and doctors, as well as serving as military intelligence officials and linguists. These women were also on the front lines of combat in many instances, with Filipino American women fighting as an underground coalition resistance in the Philippines. Asian American women initially began their involvement with the formation of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) and Women's Army Corps (WAC), serving as linguists and translators at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Their roles became increasingly more prominent and involved, however, with the bombing at Pearl Harbor and the United States' entry into the war against Japan.