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?
Recruit Educational Center The Recruit Educational Center was a program started by the US War Department in May 1919 at Camp Upton. It provided language instruction and military training for non-English-speaking and illiterate military inductees. The Recruit Educational Center claimed a widened social role for the U.S. Armed Forces during peacetime. It also intervened in the era’s virulent debates over eugenics, national identity, and the place of immigrants in American society.
Camp Courtney Camp Courtney (Japanese: キャンプ・コートニー , Hepburn: Kyampu Kōtonī ) is a U.S. Marine Base located in Uruma City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the larger Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler and home to the III Marine Expeditionary Force, 3rd Marine Division, and 3d MEB Headquarters. It is named after Major Henry A. Courtney, Jr., who was killed in action in the Battle of Okinawa. Camp Courtney covers 1.339 km2 in the Konbu, Tengan, and Uken districts of Uruma.