| Item title: | Personal punishment and military discipline |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/21) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS enemy publications |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 5/21 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-237 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 22 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Administrative document, Military order |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 3/12/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS, COURTS MARTIAL, PUNISHMENT, LAW, ORDER AND DISCIPLINE, MILITARY REGULATIONS, MORALE, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, AERIAL OPERATIONS, STRAFING |
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| Japanese unit names: | 2nd Army Ikio Force 2nd Army Field Freight Depot Biak Branch Department |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Biak [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya), Biak Island] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Biak on 15 June 1944 during the Allied attacks on Japanese positions in northern Dutch New Guinea, which were intended to isolate the 18th Army at Wewak. The full title of this item is "Personal punishment and military discipline; legal punishment of enemy air personnel; court-martial judgments; air raid defense measures". This item contains memoranda, bulletins and orders regarding military discipline, legal matters and air raid defences, issued between 1 January 1944 and 30 April 1944 by Ikio Force (2nd Army) and presumably kept by the Biak Branch Department of 2nd Army Field Freight Depot. It contains information on a variety of disciplinary matters, including: crimes against superior officers, military discipline of shipping forces, decline in military discipline, death penalty for bombing or strafing of civilian populations and private property, emergency court-martial judgements for desertion, injury, theft, insubordination, gambling, fraud. It also includes a staff memorandum on elementary precautions against enemy air raids in forward areas. This also reveals something of the Japanese attitude towards the relationship between the increasing harshness of the war and the rise in cases of poor military discipline. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:48 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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