Western Defense Command Headquarters

Western Defense Command Headquarters (HM2FTG)

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N 37° 48.09', W 122° 27.346'

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Across the street to your left is Building 35. Lives were changed by decisions made here. Originally built as cavalry barracks in 1912, it was converted in 1918 for the School of Bakers and Cooks and then in 1921 to serve as the headquarters of the Ninth Corps Area, Fourth U.S. Army. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, this building became the headquarters of the Western Defense Command under Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt. He was responsible for the defense of the western United States and the campaign to recapture Attu and Kiska Islands in Alaska. President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 gave DeWitt the authority to forcibly remove West Coast Japanese non-citizens and Japanese American citizens to relocation camps in the interior.
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HM NumberHM2FTG
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Placed ByPresidio of San Francisco, National Park Service
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Date Added Thursday, April 18th, 2019 at 11:02am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10S E 547910 N 4183930
Decimal Degrees37.80150000, -122.45576667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 48.09', W 122° 27.346'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 48' 5.4000000000002" N, 122° 27' 20.76" W
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