Group Media & Photos

Alien registration card for Mamoru Suga. JCCH/Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp, November 1943. Row 1: Mamoru Suga (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (2nd), Yoshio Koike (7th), Katsuichi Wakimoto (12th). Row 3 (L-R): Sadato Morifuji (2nd), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Futoshi Ohama (5th), Kazuto Taketa (8th), Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Kogan Yoshizumi (11th). Top Row: Isoo Kato (5th), Mannosuke Komu (8th), Kodo Fujitani (12th/3rd from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.

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Internees from Oahu. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. Front row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (3rd), Ryoichi Tanaka (5th), Nekketsu Takei (8th). Row 2: Mamoru Suga (2nd), Kazuyuki Kawano (3rd), Mannosuke Komu (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.

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Sante Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Mamoru Suga (3rd), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (4th). Row 2: Koichi Iida (4th), Sadato Morifuji (6th). Row 3: Yoshio Koike (3rd; Next to man with beard), Hego Fuchino (4th), Rev. Hakuai Oda (5th). Top Row: Rev. Hosho Kurohira (3rd from right). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Rev. Kodo Fujitani (2nd), Yoshio Koike (5th). 2nd Row: Mamoru Suga (1st), Hirouemon Yamamoto (6th), Sadato Morifuji (9th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.

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Golf Club, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Soichi Obata (1st), Minoru Murakami (7th, with sign), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (8th). Row 2: Tsuruichi Sarae (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (6th). Row 3: Yuichi Nakamura (1st fr R). Row 4: Hidekichi Nakamoto (4th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). Row 5: Shigeki Mizumoto (1st, with tie), Mamoru Suga (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). JCCH/Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Isamu Ueoka (3rd). Row 2: Rev. Joei Oi (3rd), Tsuruichi Sarae (4th), Rev. Sujio Kabashima (8th). Row 3: Rev. Tenran Mori (8th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (9th), Yuichi Nakamura (10th). Row 4: Mamoru Suga (6th), Kazuto Yokota (7th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.

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English class. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1945. Front row (L-R): Genpachi Tsushima (5th). Row 2: Mamoru Suga (4th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1: Katsukichi Kida (5th from R). Row 3: Mamoru Suga (3rd from L), Seiichi Fujii (4th from L). JCCH/ Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: February 1943

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

Ninth Transfer Group: July 1943

This internee was among thirty-four Issei men who were sent in the ninth 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

July 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.

Mamoru Suga's two older sons, Alfred Katsumi Suga and Robert Sanae Suga, served in the U.S. military during World War II.