Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport 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. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
May 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943 - April 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
April 1944 - July 1944
Paroled to Ann Arbor, Michigan: July 1944
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Kazuo Tomita opened his grocery store, K. Tomita Store, in Waipahu on Oahu Island in 1921. Son Theodore Tsunehiro Tomita served in the U.S. military during the war. After the war, daughter Laura Michiko married another Hawaii internee, Kazunari Honda.
Kazuo Tomita returned home from internment and resumed the running his business until his death in 1954.