US Army nurses disembarking from a truck on their way to planes for transport after they were liberated from Japanese internment camps during WWII. Nurses_group_boarding_plane_Santo_Tomas_LIFE.jpg US Army nurses waiting to board C-54 cargo plane after they were liberated from Japanese internment...
1941, military authorities immediately rounded up Japanese and placed them in internment camps. Those arrested on Oʻahu were initially crowded into the Honolulu Immigration Station pending a hearing or a short boat ride to Sand Island.
He spent the entire war in various POW camps in Wisconsin, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. He and others were offered educational opportunities through the “Internment University” that had lectures on English, geography, commerce, agriculture, music, Japanese poetry, Buddhist scriptures and other su...