Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.Armistice day 1940, Lowry Detachment
Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.Armistice day 1940
Denver Post fileRalph L. Carr being sworn in, 1941
Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.Hospitality dances, 1941
Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.National Defense Training Program
Photo courtesy of History ColoradoRalph L. Carr (Right), Colorado Governor 1939-43
Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.A Colorado National Guard member kisses his sweetheart goodbye
Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.Colorado National Guard field training, 1940
Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.Colorado National Guard mobilization, 1940
Courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.August 28, 1942 - Men wearing overalls and hats ready wooden forms for concrete foundations at Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Shovels lie on freshly dug piles of soil; wooden sawhorses, tool boxes and stacks of lumber are around the perimeter of the 120 x 20 foot barrack foundation. Rolling prairie shows in the background. (Tom Parker, photographer)
Courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.August 30, 1942 - Japanese evacuees stand or sit with their suitcases and belongings in front of a Santa Fe and Topeka passenger train car. The men and women wait for the bus ride to Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, southeastern Colorado. (Tom Parker, photographer)
Courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.December 12, 1942 - Overview of the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, shows rows of prefabricated army-style barracks (120 x 20 feet.) Twelve of these one-story side gable barracks with tar-paper roofs made a block which had its own recreation hall, laundry, and mess hall. Wooden storage boxes, benches, palettes, and laundry lines show around buildings. Prairie and bare trees are in the distance. (Tom Parker, photographer)
Courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.August 28, 1942 - Japanese men enter barracks at Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. One carries suitcases and the other has a duffle bag over his back. Folded striped mattresses, canvas cots and a heating stove are the only items in the building with exposed wood framing and composition wall board. (Tom Parker, photographer)
Photo courtesy of History ColoradoAmache Internment camp, Granada, Colorado
Photo courtesy of History ColoradoAmache Internment camp, Granada, Colorado
Photo courtesy of History ColoradoAmache Internment camp, Granada, Colorado
Photo courtesy of History ColoradoWWII era Denver, Colorado
Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.Ralph L. Carr
Rocky Mountain News photo courtesy of Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Dept.
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Armistice day 1940, Lowry Detachment
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Getting your player ready...
Seventy-five years after Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor and launched the United States into World War II, the memories continue to reverberate in Colorado for aging Navy survivors and the Japanese Americans who were later sent to an internment camp on the eastern plains near Kansas. Many are looking back this month and vowing to never forget.
















