Food and Clothing at the Kooskia Internment Camp

Daily ration points required for meats, cheese, and fats

Information from LAF to unknown, "Memorandum Covering the Food Allowance Expressed as Pounds Per Man Per Day for the Use of Alien Detainees Held under Jurisdiction of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service at Kooskia, Idaho," May 19, 1943, 2; E291, 1000/K(4), RG85, NARA I.

Daily averages of food items and their weights provided to detainees at INS camps, April 1942 and February 1943

A-1 and A-2 reflect whether fresh fruits and vegetables were plentiful locally (A-1) or not (A-2).

Information from LBS, "Instruction No. 58, Instructions Concerning the Treatment of Alien Enemy Detainees," April 28, 1942, 3-4; E291, 1022/X, RG85, NARA I; and EGH, "Instruction No. 123," February 24, 1943; E303, RG85, NARA I. A May 1943 directive retained the same figures in the February 1943 food allowances, LAF to unknown, "Memorandum Covering the Food Allowance Expressed as Pounds Per Man Per Day for the Use of Alien Detainees Held under Jurisdiction of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service at Kooskia, Idaho," May 19, 1943; E291, 1000/K(4), RG85, NARA I. Certain hospital patients, for example, received the A-1 diet, except that they got more eggs, .25 pound, and more milk, 2.18 pounds. They received less meat and fish, only .50 pound, and fewer potatoes and other root vegetables, just .25 pound each, but the total amount was higher, at 5.793 pounds of food per patient per day, ibid., 1.

Alien mess report, Kooskia Internment Camp, May 25 through June 19, 1943

Information from [Unknown], KIC, to DA-OICKIC, June 19, 1943; E291, 1000/K(1) RG85, NARA I.

Examples of miscellaneous food items supplied by Fort Missoula to the Kooskia Internment Camp in June 1943

Information from FMB to OICKIC, Attn.: DA, June 26, 1943; 1000/K(1) RG85, NARA I.

Quantities and prices for fresh produce supplied to the Kooskia Internment Camp, June 1943

Information from DAR, IBA, June 25, 1943, together with reverse of previous, "Conditions," "Warranty," "Discrimination Clause," "Instruction to Bidders," "Instructions to Contracting Officers," together with SFN36, AN85-58A734, FN56125/288, Box 2451, RG85, NARA I, and IBA between BHF for KIC, and Pacific Fruit & Produce Co., Lewiston, ID, June 10, 1943; all E291, 1000/S(3), RG85, NARA I.

Meat supplied to the Kooskia Internment Camp, May to June 1943

Information from FMIC to Carstens Packing Co., Spokane, WA, June 24, 1943; E291, 1000/S(3), RG85, NARA I. Amounts in table were combined from four individual weeks so resulting total does not quite match that of $350.37 in the document cited.

Amounts and prices of Asian food items sent from Fort Missoula to the Kooskia Internment Camp

Information from BHF to OICKIC, Attn.: DA, June 2, 1943; E291, 1000/K(4), RG85, NARA I.

Winter clothing for internees at the Kooskia camp

Information from BHF to OICKIC, November 16, 1943; E291, 1000/S(3), RG85, NARA I.

Additional winter clothing for internees at the Kooskia camp

N/A is Not Available and N/C is No Cost.

Information from BHF to OICKIC, December 13, 1943; E291, 1000/S(3), RG85, NARA I; BHF, January 26, 1944; E291, 1000/K(6), RG85, NARA I; and BHF to WHW, March 15, 1944; E291, 1000/K(4), RG85, NARA I.