Remo Bosia wrote about his experiences with General DeWitt (the general in The General and I), head of the Western Defense Command, who pursued Bosia even when he tried to serve the United States in the military. Though Bosia was court-martialed when authorities there learned of the exclusion order against him, he was acquitted at trial and then released from the Army because of ill health. On Bosia’s return to his home south of San Francisco, DeWitt reactivated his exclusion order and Bosia and his family had to move to Reno.

This is the exclusion order issued to Nino Guttadauro. The order cites the authority of Executive Order 9066 to support Guttadauro’s exclusion from the 27 states listed. It orders Guttadauro to report in two days to Major Ashworth at the Whitcomb Hotel in San Francisco; be photographed and fingerprinted; provide the military with his plans for traveling out of the area; and notify the FBI when he arrived at his destination, in this case, Reno, Nev. Guttadauro took his family with him, but had great difficulty finding work in his field (as an accountant). His son, Angelo, a Colonel in the U.S. Army, testified in 1981 before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, that the hearing given his father in 1942 was “a virtual star-chamber.”

Copy of the Agenda at the hearings of the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, with Col. Angelo Guttadauro’s testimony highlighted in red.