Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - September 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families
Seeking family reunification, Teruzo Hirama's wife, daughter, and son entered the internment system and were sent to the Jerome Concentration Camp in early 1943. While there, daughter Evelyn, married Kauai-born Edward Satoru Miyake, who was then stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
While the rest of the Hirama family expatriated to Japan, Evelyn and Edward Miyake returned to Hawaii after the war.