Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees 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 First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943 - February 1944
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1944 - June 1944
Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado
June 1944 - September 1945
Two of Ichiro Konno's sons served in the U.S. military during World War II. Daniel Saburo Konno volunteered in 1943 and was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Medical Company. Older brother Clifford Toshio Konno volunteered in 1944 and was trained as a linguist with the Military Intelligence Service. Commissioned a lieutenant, he served in Australia and the Philippines as a member of the army's psychological warfare department.