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強制収容所の場所

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 military transport ship U.S. Grant 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

3月 1942


Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

3月 1942 - 5月 1942


Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

5月 1942 - 6月 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

6月 1942 - 6月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 12月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


To read a transcript of an oral history interview with Katsuichi Kawamoto's son Toshio Kawamoto, click the link above.