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Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
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 - March 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
March 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Kinai Ikuma's grandson Edward Yoshio Ikuma was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion. In 2014, Edward Ikuma was among three other unit veterans awarded the French government's Legion of Honor for their wartime service. One of the other 100th Battalion honorees was a brother of fellow internee Takao Nishimura.