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Western Defense Command
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<h2 id="commanders">Commanders</h2> <p>The following men served as Commanding General, Western Defense Command:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Lieutenant General <a href="/facts/John_L._DeWitt/L93toXUM">John L. DeWitt</a>, 17 March 1941 – September 1943</li> <li>Lieutenant General <a href="/facts/Delos_C._Emmons/CeLEGxNW">Delos C. Emmons</a>, September 1943 – June 1944</li> <li>Major General Robert H. Lewis, June 1944</li> <li>Major General <a href="/facts/Charles_Hartwell_Bonesteel,_Jr./uH74P8Xn">Charles H. Bonesteel, Jr.</a>, June 1944 – November 1944</li> <li>Major General <a href="/facts/Henry_Conger_Pratt/BGa1h7h0">Henry Conger Pratt</a>, December 1944 – November 1945</li> <li>Major General Harold R. Nichols, December 1945</li> <li>General <a href="/facts/Joseph_W._Stilwell/p9lEkjht">Joseph W. Stilwell</a>, December 1945 – March 1946</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Eastern_Defense_Command/IHsAxKay">Eastern Defense Command</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Central_Defense_Command/mVfP4nyI">Central Defense Command</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Southern_Defense_Command/tJz6zznu">Southern Defense Command</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Alaska_Defense_Command/C5tbHDrE">Alaska Defense Command</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Caribbean_Defense_Command/JhMVN1sI">Caribbean Defense Command</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Conn, Stetson; Engelman, Rose C.; Fairchild, Byron (2000) [1964]. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071225041653/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Guard-US/index.htm#contents"><i>Guarding the United States and its Outposts</i></a>. United States Army in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army. Archived from <a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Guard-US/index.htm#contents">the original</a> on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2017.</li> <li>Stanton, Shelby L. (1991). <i>World War II Order of Battle</i>. Galahad Books. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-88365-775-9.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Conn, pp. 33–40 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Conn, pp. 39–40, 44 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Western Defense Command," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 July 2014. <a href="http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Western_Defense_Command/" target="_blank">http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Western_Defense_Command/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Brian Niiya. "Civilian exclusion orders," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 July 2014. <a href="http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Civilian%20exclusion%20orders/" target="_blank">http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Civilian%20exclusion%20orders/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Conn, p. 117-122 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Conn, p. 83 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Stanton, pp. 79–80 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Transferred to Eastern Defense Command January 1943. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Defense_Command" target="_blank">/wiki/Eastern_Defense_Command</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>The 364th Infantry (Colored) was in the Arizona border area with Mexico September 1942 through May 1943. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Conn, pp. 36–39 <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Stanton, pp. 117–118, 131–132, 220, 223, 224, 233, 252 <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>J. tenBroek, E. N. Barnhart, F. W. Matson, "Prejudice, War, and the Constitution: Causes and Consequences of the Evacuation of the Japanese Americans in Work War II", 2nd ed., University of California Press, 1970, ISBN 0-520-01262-3. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>