Internment Locations
Arrested: August 1942
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Waiakea Prison Camp, Hilo, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
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 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - November 1945
San Francisco, California
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.
Upon the Yasunakas' release from confinement, Hideichi, wife Shizuka, and younger son Kaneaki Francis returned to Hawaii. Older son Kaname Gary and daughter Tsuyako Gloria remained in California.
In 1950, Gary was inducted into the U.S. Army and sent overseas. He was declared missing in action in the Korean War in April 1951.