Internment Locations
Arrested: April 1942
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of forty-nine men (mostly Issei) were sent in the fifth transfer group for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
August 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1942
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Two of Kiyoji Hotta's sons, Kiyoshi and Kihachiro Jack, served in World War II as members of the 100th Infantry Battalion. In July 1944, Kihachiro was killed in action in Italy; he was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.