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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer 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.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

June 1942


Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

June 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1942 - June 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - March 1945


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

March 1945 - December 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Takegoro Kusao's son Yutaro Kusao enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1945. He trained as a linguist with the Military Intelligence Service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.