Internment Locations

Transferred to Mainland: November 1942

Sent aboard the passenger ship Antigua with more than 100 other Hawaii residents to War Relocation Authority camps on the Mainland.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

November 1942 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - October 1944


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

November 1944 - August 1945


Richard Shunichi Matsumura entered the U.S. military at the end of his family's incarceration. He was a member of the army's Military Intelligence Service.