Internment Locations
Arrested: March 1942
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Transferred to Oahu Island: May 1942
This internee was in a group of twenty-six men who arrived on Oahu from the Big Island.
U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island
May 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
May 1942 - March 1943
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 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
In spring 1943, as Mataichi Nakamura and his family were transferred to the Mainland for internment, oldest son Allan Iseo Nakamura volunteered to serve in the U.S. military. He fought with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion.