Biography
Tony Marta is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Honolulu, Hawaii as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
Tony Marta is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Honolulu, Hawaii as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
The individually named entry appears on roster sheet 8, row 2, with historical serial stem HI-39. The table labels Camp McCoy as the place of detention and marks the internment category “Permanently.” That word is an administrative classification in this dated roster, not a measured term or proof of lifelong detention. Its “transferred from” column names Fort McDowell; no transfer day is printed.
May 1, 1942 is the roster’s observation date. It is not entered as a first arrest or admission date. The roster’s civilian-internment classification does not establish guilt, a particular political affiliation, ethnicity, citizenship, birth date or gender. No current imprisonment is inferred from this historical document.
Official Camp McCoy roster, May 1, 1942, PDF page 28, sheet 8, row 2.
A May 25, 1942 Provost Marshal General memorandum names Tony Marta under civilian-internee serial HI-39-CI, matching the May 1 roster’s HI-39 entry. It describes him with Helmut Emig and Mario Valdastri as a naturalized citizen retained at Camp McCoy pending a proposed transfer to San Francisco for return to Hawaii. This adds the contemporary citizenship description and continuing custody observation; the proposed journey does not establish an actual transfer or release.
Original Camp McCoy civilian internment records, PDF page 52.