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A three-minute story from this date in the Second World War, narrated, with the sources to check it. Then the battle it belongs to, drawn on the map phase by phase.
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MON 01 NOV 1943War day 1,523Home front
A visit by an administrator drew thousands to the camp headquarters. The negotiations began only after the building was surrounded.
On 1 November 1943, War Relocation Authority Director Dillon S. Myer visited the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California. At lunchtime, leaders of the Daihyo Sha Kai, a group of inmates who spoke for their fellow prisoners, spread word that Myer had arrived at 11:00 a.m. They called on families to assemble for a peaceful protest.
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