Internment Locations
Arrested: October 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: March 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah
March 1943 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - February 1946
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.
Masanao Kusuda's younger brother, Masayoshi Kusuda, was as a member of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service during World War II. At the end of his internment, Masanao Kusuda also served in the U.S. Army.