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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 military transport ship U.S. Grant 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

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


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - March 1944


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

March 1944 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Koetsu Morita was originally known as Koetsu Matsumura. He took his wife's name, Morita, shortly after his marriage.