Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship 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.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
June 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
June 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Three of Sannojo Tanabe's sons -- Conrad Yoshiyuki Tanabe, Charles Hideyuki Tanabe, and Benjamin Katsuyuki Tanabe -- served in the U.S. military during World War II. Conrad Yoshiyuki was an army interpreter and translator, serving in the Pacific Theater and then in Japan at the end of the war. Benjamin Katsuyuki also served as a Japanese language interpreter.