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 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944 - October 1944
Manzanar Concentration Camp, California
October 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Tsuneko Hiraoka was born in Ewa on Oahu Island. She married fisherman Hikotaro Komori and together they reared six children. Tsuneko was working at the Pineapple Cannery in Honolulu at the time of the family's transfer to the Mainland for incarceration.
Within months of her husband's death in Tule Lake camp in May 1944, Tsuneko learned of the death of her brother, Pfc. Genichi Hiraoka, a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, who was killed in action in Italy.