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George Hitoshi Yamamoto

Released
Date of birth:31. 08. 1926
Date of death:02. 05. 1947
Age:20† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Time Imprisoned:
3 Years
Support
Anti-War Heart Mountain Draft Resistance
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Biography

George Hitoshi Yamamoto was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at McNeil Island in Washington.

Forced-removal chronology

The institutional biography records confinement at Santa Anita Assembly Center on May 26, 1942, followed by arrival at Heart Mountain on September 17, 1942. These are confinement-stage milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a change to the draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Sentenced: July 1945
Sentence: 2 years imposed. Served time at McNeil Island in Washington. Actual release date has not been established.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington