Group Media & Photos
Baton twirlers with hats made of oatmeal boxes and covered with blue paper. Jerome Concentration Camp, 1944. Patricia Kirita is 4th row, 6th from left. JCCH/Patricia Kirita Nomura.
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Internment Locations
Transferred to Mainland: December 1942
Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
January 1943 - June 1944
Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona
June 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.