Internment Locations
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.
Before the war, George Nakayama was a teacher at the Waianae Japanese Language School, led by principal Sanji Sakamoto, who also would be interned. While in Tule Lake, George married Sumie Ohara of Sacramento, California. Their son, Hiromichi, was born in camp.