Internment Camp Poston AZ: The Colorado River Relocation Center

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The Colorado river relocation center was the J.A internment Camp Poston AZ for Japanese american through 1942 to 1945. For the location of the camp was Yuma county Arizona that was 17 miles south of parker, From the size of the land was 71,000 acres. And that Poston was the largest of the camps. From the populations peak was 17,814 with men, women, and children. From the 4 years that every Japanese american was in the camp the climate was terribly hot for them to just having hot and cold flashes every day since that they didnt have heat or cooling air conditioning. From all those Japanese americans that lived in that camp for 4 years many tried to take the best of it. In there difficult situations imates worked to create a better situation

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