Ohta, Miyeko Ella

Part of a group of almost forty Hawaii families (wives, mothers and children) sent to the Mainland for intended repatriation to Japan along with their husbands and fathers already in incarceration. The families' transfer was overseen by the War Department, and the group was accompanied by Hawaii physician Isao Murai, a representative of the American Red Cross.

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