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Located in Prowers County, Colorado, just outside of the town of Granada. Opened August 27, 1942, as the Granada War Relocation Center, but would be more well known as Camp Amache. At its peak, Amache held around 7,597 incarcerees, mainly coming from Los Angeles, Sonoma, Yolo, Stanislaus, Sacramento, and Merced counties in California. Nearly 1,000 Nisei from Amache would serve in the armed forces. Amache would finally close on January 27, 1946.

Heroes Among Us: Stories of Courage, Patriotism & Sacrifice

Born on April 22, 1925, in Modesto, California, John was the youngest of eight Togashi children. The family lived in Modesto, in a predominantly Asian neighborhood, where his dad worked as a day laborer and his mom ran a boarding house. When the war broke out, John and his family were sent to the Merced Temporary Detention Center before being moved to Amache. Some of John’s brothers would volunteer for the 442nd, while John left camp to go to Detroit. Just after moving, he received his draft notice. He would be assigned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He would serve in the Apennines and Po Valley Campaign, as well as the Gothic Line.

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Amache Concentration Camp 1

Hachiro Togashi - Draft Card

Amache Soldier Roster

Research through the Valor in Confinement project enabled GFBNEC to build a list Japanese American soldiers who served from the ten War Relocation Authority confinement sites during WWII. These soldiers were recruited out of the concentration camp and/or had direct family incarcerated in the camp. List periodically updated.

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