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Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth transfer group 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.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
March 1943 - August 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Kyujiro Nakashima's son, Hisashi, was living in California when the war broke out. He was sent to the Gila River Concentration Camp in Arizona. Following his release from camp, Hisashi entered the U.S. Army and served as a sergeant with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.