Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1943 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - March 1946
Returned to Hawaii: April 1946
With Saburo Tamao under incarceration in Jerome, older brother Jiro Tamao volunteered in spring 1943 to serve as a U.S. Army translator. He received training at the Military Language School at Camp Savage, Minnesota and served with Military Intelligence Service.