Item title: | JA147054 interrogation report |
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Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/9) 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 interrogation reports |
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Location details | |
Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
Call number: | AWM55 6/9 |
Inst. series: | AWM55 |
Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
Item: | IR-389 (Serial no. 538) |
Item qualities | |
Quantity / desc: | 10 pages |
Access: | Open |
Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
Creation date (d/m/y): | 15/8/1944 |
Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, WAR - HOME FRONT, PRISONERS OF WAR, MORALE, PROPAGANDA, LEAFLET DROPPING, CONSCRIPTION |
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Japanese unit names: | 53rd Infantry Regt |
Names: | JA147054, 1st Class Pte |
Languages: | English |
Area: | New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] Rabaul [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area] Osaka Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Honshû] |
Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147054, a 1st Class Private with the 53rd Infantry Regiment, who was captured by US Marines at Karai-ai on 21 February 1944. During the interrogation, JA147054 provided information on conscription, his service experience, rationing in Japan, rising taxation, that he did not wish to communicate with his family, that the war would end in a Japanese defeat, the treatment of natives, Allied prisoners of war in Osaka in mid-1942, morale, attitude toward military police and exposure to Allied leaflet propaganda. |
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Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:21 AM |
Source: | AJRP staff |
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