Internment Locations
Transferred to Mainland: March 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah
March 1943 - March 1944
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
March 1944 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
In 1943, Matsu Wada travelled with her young children to the Mainland and entered the internment system. A year later, the family was transferred to Crystal City, where they were reunited husband and father Umeo Wada. A son, Hisashi, was born in Crystal City.