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Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration. Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry living in the following area: all of that portion of the City of Los Angeles.. Presidio of San Francisco, California, May 22 1942. Official military poster printed in black and white, 560 x350mm. Faint fold lines through being rolled, a few small nicks to the margins, otherwise in good condition. An official Notice for the head of each family with Japanese Ancestry (in the Northern Los Angeles area), to report to the Civil Control Station (in Los Angeles) between May 23rd to May 25th 1945, to receive further instructions. The rounding up of American people with Japanese ancestry, was part of the clamp down following Pearl Harbor and the Declaration of War by Japan on the USA. The military style round-up of Civilian Japanese-American citizens, was carried out systematically from the north in Seattle down southern California, with over 110,000 people moved out of their homes and into civilian internment camps in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and California. Most families remained in the camps until 1945, although thousands of young Japanese-American men volunteered to fight in Japanese-American units, and were sent to fight in Europe. For a long time the treatment of these citizens was a dark stain on the American character. It was not until 1988 that the Government, acknowledged its error, and paid $20,000 to surviving Internees, together with a Presidential letter of apology.