Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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. This internee was in a sub-group of Second Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
May 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943 - January 1944
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
January 1944 - June 1944
Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado
June 1944 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Sueji Iwasa's two sons served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Walter M. Iwasa was a lieutenant with the 100th Infantry Battalion. Wilfred Koji Iwasa was a member of the Military Intelligence Service.