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U.S. Army Facilities Family members of Alaskan Japanese American Issei already imprisoned were held for a short time at Fort Richardson while enroute to the Puyallup Assembly Center in Washington. Fort Richardson is nine miles north of downtown Anchorage, Alaska.
In Hawaii, Sand Island in Honolulu was the major detention camp for the initial housing and processing of the 5,000 Japanese Americans detained under martial law (Figure 17.57). There were also small detention camps such as the Kalaheo stockade on the island of Kauai, and Haiku camp on the island of Maui. About 1,500 of those incarcerated in Hawaii were later transferred to mainland internment camps, but the majority were released. On the island of Oahu, a permanent internment camp ringed with barbed wire and guard towers was built. Named Honouliuli, it held 284 Kibei under armed guard (Saiki 1982). In November 1944 the camp was closed. Sixty-seven of the internees were then sent to the mainland, the others were paroled provided they would sign releases holding the U.S. government blameless for their incarceration (Weglyn 1976). |
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