World War II

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• Executive Order 9066 and the Residents of Santa Cruz County, edited by Rechs Ann Pedersen *
  This is a collection of quotations and full-text articles from local newspapers from 1941 to 1946. The collection traces the events impacting the lives of the Japanese, Japanese-American, Italian, and (to a lesser extent) German residents in Santa Cruz County, California, because of Executive Order 9066.

• Go for Broke: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, by Tracy L. Barnett
• A Half-Century of Service; The Watsonville Japanese-American Citizens League, 1934-1984, by Sandy Lydon.
• List of Pajaro Valley Nisei Veterans of WWII
• List of WWII Veterans with Japanese Surnames from the Service Cardinal
• Male Notte, by Geoffrey Dunn
• Nihon Bunka / Japanese Culture; 100 Years in the Pajaro Valley, by Kathy McKenzie Nichols and Jane W. Borg.
  • Chapter 3: Uneasy Settlement: the War Years
  • Chapter 4: A Time to Reflect: 1945--1992.
• Una Storia Segreta; when Italian Americans were "enemy aliens," by Rose Scherini, Lawrence DiStasi with Adele Negro.

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