Biography
Willy Beyer was a naturalized US citizen and retired Honolulu catering and potato-chip business owner. His letter mailed March 11, 1942 from Camp McCoy said he had been taken from home on December 8, 1941 and detained at the Honolulu Immigration Station, with an enemy-alien warrant read on December 18. He protested his internment and separation from his wife Frances Beyer, asking Delegate Samuel W. King whether he would be held indefinitely. This establishes actual months of administrative wartime confinement, but no exact release or imposed judicial sentence.
Willy Beyer was a naturalized US citizen and retired Honolulu catering and potato-chip business owner. His letter mailed March 11, 1942 from Camp McCoy said he had been taken from home on December 8, 1941 and detained at the Honolulu Immigration Station, with an enemy-alien warrant read on December 18. He protested his internment and separation from his wife Frances Beyer, asking Delegate Samuel W. King whether he would be held indefinitely. This establishes actual months of administrative wartime confinement, but no exact release or imposed judicial sentence. Administrative wartime confinement, not a judicial sentence. Willy Beyer was a naturalized US citizen and retired Honolulu catering and potato-chip business owner. His letter mailed March 11, 1942 from Camp McCoy said he had been taken from home on December 8, 1941 and detained at the Honolulu Immigration Station, with an enemy-alien warrant read on December 18. He protested his internment and separation from his wife Frances Beyer, asking Delegate Samuel W. King whether he would be held indefinitely. This establishes actual months of administrative wartime confinement, but no exact release or imposed judicial sentence.
Original wartime civilian internment records, PDF pages 6, 15, 16, 17.
