Biography
Richard H. F. Gebauer is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Leone, American Samoa as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
Richard H. F. Gebauer is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Leone, American Samoa as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
The individually named entry appears on roster sheet 3, row 9, with historical serial stem WG-2. The table labels Camp McCoy as the place of detention and marks the internment category “Permanently.” That word is an administrative classification in this dated roster, not a measured term or proof of lifelong detention. Its “transferred from” column names Fort McDowell; no transfer day is printed.
May 1, 1942 is the roster’s observation date. It is not entered as a first arrest or admission date. The roster’s civilian-internment classification does not establish guilt, a particular political affiliation, ethnicity, citizenship, birth date or gender. No current imprisonment is inferred from this historical document.
Official Camp McCoy roster, May 1, 1942, PDF page 23, sheet 3, row 9.