Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
During World War II, the War Relocation Authority created fire departments in the concentration camps to ensure standard protections. Japanese Americans had opportunities to work in the camps, and some chose to be firefighters. This video shows Norio Mitsuoka and the Minidoka Fire Crew in their element.
Credit: Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Norio Mitsuoka, 95.54
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This video is included as part of JANM’s Exploring America’s Concentration Camps website, an online resource for learning about the forced removal and confinement of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in American-style concentration camps during World War II: eacc.janm.org
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During World War II, the War Relocation Authority created fire departments in the concentration camps to ensure standard protections. Japanese Americans had opportunities to work in the camps, and some chose to be firefighters. This video shows Norio Mitsuoka and the Minidoka Fire Crew in their element.
Credit: Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Norio Mitsuoka, 95.54
Moving images from the Japanese American National Museum’s collection may not be reproduced, distributed, or displayed without a completed license agreement and payment of the appropriate use fees. Fees apply to one time use per film distributed in licensed format, unless otherwise authorized in the license agreement. For more information, please contact collections@janm.org.
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This video is included as part of JANM’s Exploring America’s Concentration Camps website, an online resource for learning about the forced removal and confinement of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in American-style concentration camps during World War II: eacc.janm.org
Japanese American National Museum
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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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