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Internment Locations

Arrested: February 1942


Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship 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

June 1942


Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

June 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1942


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - December 1943


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

December 1943 - June 1944


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

June 1944 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.