Biography
Tamaichi Tanaka was an Issei storekeeper listed as a Honolulu resident and the proprietor of Tanaka Store in Kahuku. JCCH records his birth year as 1888. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Sand Island detention, mainland transfer in February 1942, Angel Island in March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Fort Missoula June 1943-April 1944 and Santa Fe April 1944-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. His route through Fort Missoula differs from that of his brother Katsuichi. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/tanaka-tamaichi
Photo: JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Second row, seventh from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/goto-mankichi . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
The original May 1, 1942 Camp McCoy civilian-internee roster individually records Tamaichi Tanaka, serial ISN-HJ-65-(Ci), as permanently interned at the camp after transfer from Fort McDowell, California. This supplies a contemporaneous individual custody reference for the existing wartime chronology. May 1 is a roster observation, not an inferred first admission or release. The historical internment serial is not a modern BOP register number.
