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The majority of the internees made the 30-hour train trip to Minidoka in 16 groups of approximately 500, beginning on August 12. On May 26, 196 men volunteered for an early transfer to Tule Lake to help finish construction on the camp there.

In May and June 1942, just under 100 Japanese Americans left Camp Harmony to find work or attend school outside the exclusion zone, or to repatriate to Japan. A 100-bed hospital was built in Area D, and existing facilities were used as administration offices and community centers. Each area contained several mess halls, laundry facilities and latrines. The barracks 'apartments' were designed to allow 50 square feet of space per individual, with one small window, a single electrical socket and a wood stove. D, with a population of about 3000, located on the fairgrounds proper in the area including the racetrack and grandstand, east of the roller coaster.C, with a population of about 800, located northwest of the fairgrounds.B, with a population of about 1200, just east of the fairgrounds in the vicinity of the current Blue parking lot.A, with a population of about 2000, located northeast of the fairgrounds.

The location for the assembly center was on and around the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup, Washington.

Camp Harmony was established in May 1942, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt's subsequent Executive Order 9066, which authorized the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

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