William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. Established in March of 1942 by order of General John DeWitt, the WCCA oversaw the forced removal of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and administered detention camps called "temporary assembly centers." In the late summer and fall of 1942, the WCCA transferred incarcerees to longer-term camps run by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The WCCA was dissolved on March 15, 1943. Mountin collected and maintained the materials included in this collection through the course of his work at the WCCA. The material consists of memos, reports, bulletins, forms, reports, maps, Civilian Exclusion Orders, broadsides, ephemera and publications related to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.

William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration, under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army.

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