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 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - November 1945


Gary Yasunaka remained in California after his release from Tule Lake. In 1950, he was inducted into the U.S. Army and sent overseas. Pvt. Gary Yasunaka was declared missing in action in the Korean War in April 1951.