Group Media & Photos
Six internees. Santa Fe Internment Camp, August 1943. (L-R): Tsuruichi Sarae, Matsutaro Shimizu, Shinichi Hasebe, Kiyoichi Koide, Usaburo Katamoto, Katsukichi Kida. JCCH/ Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1: Katsukichi Kida (5th from R). Row 3: Mamoru Suga (3rd from L), Seiichi Fujii (4th from L). JCCH/ Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: April 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 109 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
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.