Group Media & Photos
Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. Hawaii internees: Row 2 (L-R): Mannosuke Komu (1st, seated), Usaburo Katamoto (2nd, seated), Tetsunosuke Sone (5th), Riuichi Ipponsugi (6th), Yukihide Kohatsu (8th), Hirouemon Yamamoto (9th). Ryuichi Moribe (10th), Ichiji Kinoshita (11th). Row 3: Neichiro Nakagawa (4th), Isoo Kato (6th), Gengo Honda (9th, glasses, facing left), Jiro Yoshizawa (10th), Eijiro Suzuki (11th). Row 4: Taizen Imamura (2nd, at center with tie), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Tomoye Ikeda (5th). Row 5: Kichisuke Yoda (2nd), Manjiro Konno (3rd), Riichi Togawa (4th), Katsuichi Miho (5th). Back row: Setsuzo Toyota (1st), Unji Hirayama (2nd, white shirt). Inset (L-R): Kenju Ohtomo (1st), Yukihide Kohatsu (2nd), Tomoichi Hayashi (3rd). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Original identifications for photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Signatures on back of photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: February 1942
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
One hundred and nine Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the third transfer ship 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
June 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
June 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1942 - June 1943
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.