Statement made by Osama Nakata

In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which ordered the removal of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the west coast. Osama Nakata was incarcerated at Poston Relocation Camp in remote western Arizona, behind barbed wire and watched by armed guards. He was required to fill out a four-page loyalty questionnaire about his relatives, the newspapers and magazines he read, and his ability to read, write, and speak Japanese. This signed statement is his answer to one of the last questions, “Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered?”

National Archives at Riverside, Records of the Selective Service System