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Robert Emmett Fletcher Jr. (July 26, 1911 – May 23, 2013) was an American agricultural inspector who quit his job to care for the fruit farms of Japanese families during World War II, after many Japanese Americans were forcibly sent to internment camps as a result of Executive Order 9066.
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- Robert Emmett Fletcher, July 26, 1911, San Francisco, California U.S.
- University of California, Davis
- May 23, 2013 (aged 101), Sacramento, California U.S.
Jun 6, 2013 · Bob Fletcher, a former California agriculture inspector who, ignoring the resentment of neighbors, quit his job in the middle of World War II to manage the fruit farms of Japanese families...
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Jan 9, 2024 · San Francisco. Farmer, fireman, and community historian best known for safeguarding the farms of expelled Japanese Americans in Florin, California, during World War II. Robert Emmett Fletcher, Jr. (1911–2013) was born in San Francisco and grew up as an only child on a farm in Brentwood, California, a farming community in Contra Costa County ...
Oct 5, 2023 · A state agriculture inspector, Bob Emmett Fletcher, gave them hope for the future. He agreed to manage the farms of Tsukamoto and two other families. This would require that he quit his job. He was offered their home as a place to live, but he chose to live in the migrant workers’ bunk house instead.
By Patrick Kiger, June 4, 2013 09:50 AM. Robert Emmett "Bob" Fletcher, who died on May 23 at age 101 in the Sacramento area, fought heroically to defend his fellow Americans during World War II, though he never put on a uniform or fired a shot. His struggle, though, was not against the Axis powers.
Jun 3, 2013 · Bob Fletcher, who quit his job as a state agricultural inspector during World War II to save the Sacramento farms of interned Japanese American families, died May 23 in Sacramento, his family...
May 23, 2013 · Robert Emmett Fletcher Jr. (July 26, 1911 – May 23, 2013) was an American agricultural inspector who quit his job to care for the fruit farms of Japanese families during World War II, after many Japanese Americans were forcibly sent to internment camps as a result of Executive Order 9066. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close.
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