Internment Locations
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1943 - March 1943
Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah
March 1943 - October 1944
Chicago, Illinois
While in Topaz, Thelma Kaneshiro married her fiancé, Tadao Tom Tanahara, who was originally from Hawaii but living in San Francisco at the outbreak of the war.