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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.