Order of Merit award
Order of Merit award
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- Description
- This document is an Order of Merit that was presented to Roy Nakano from the War Relocation Authority. It was awarded to evacuee workers who demonstrated outstanding work in their service to the WRA. The WRA appreciated the hard work that Roy, as well as many other Japanese American workers, did during their imprisonment. Note how the document is addressed to "Mr. Ray Nakano", spelling Roy's name wrong.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- document
- date made
- April 5, 1943
- maker
- War Relocation Authority
- place made
- United States: California, Tule Lake
- United States: California, Tule Lake
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 in; 26.67 cm x 20.32 cm
- ID Number
- 2016.0037.22
- catalog number
- 2016.0037.22
- accession number
- 2016.0037
- Credit Line
- Gift of Janice Faden
- Japanese American Internment
- World War II
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
- Executive Order 9066
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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