There were close to 100,000 Japanese-Americans living in California in 1940.
Honouliuli Internment Camp was created in 1943.
Honouliuli Internment Camp ended in 1945.
An internment camp holds whomever the authorities want to hold. A "prisoner of war" camp is a special kind of internment camp, one that holds foreign soldiers captured in combat.
There were many reasons why someone was moved into an internment camp during World War 2. In the US, some Japanese people were put into camps because of their descent. In Germany, many Jews, homosexuals, gypsy, and political enemies were put in camps for no reason.
Camp suckkawener of Alabama
See: Japanese American internment
internment area for POW's
After Jeanne and her family leave Manzanar internment camp, the American Friends Service helps them find a apartment at Cabrillo Homes housing project in Long Beach, California.
No --- I believe you're thinking of Manzanar. Manzanar was an internment camp used for the Japanese during WWII.
A desert in Utah
Yes, there was a Japanese internment camp in Corcoran, California, known as the Corcoran Assembly Center. It was one of several temporary detention centers established during World War II to hold Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast. The camp operated from 1942 to 1943 before detainees were transferred to more permanent facilities.
the Gila River camp was located 30 miles southeast of Phoenix.