Internment Locations
Waiakea Prison Camp, Hilo, Hawaii Island
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 - November 1945
Repatriated to Japan: November 1945
Two of Hikohachi Onouye's sons, Tetsuo and Tsutomu, volunteered for the U.S. Army and were members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Tetsuo Onouye, a staff sergeant, was wounded at the seige of the Arno River in Italy and awarded a Purple Heart. Tsutomu Onouye received a Bronze Star for heroism during fighting in France.