| Item title: | Combined 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-408 (Serial no. 558) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 11 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 24/8/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, INTERNEES, CONSCRIPTION, PRISONERS OF WAR, TROOP MOVEMENT |
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| Names: | JA147089, 1st Class Pte; JA147109, Superior Pte; JA147130, Superior Pte; JA147319, Superior Pte; JA147218, 1st Class Pte; JA147298, Superior Pte; JA147300, Superior Pte; JA147567, Cpl; JA147119, 1st Class Pte; JA147249, Leading Pte; JA147079, 1st Class Pte; JA147179, Superior Pte; JA147321, 1st Class Pte; JA145731, Superior Pte; JA147171, Superior Pte; JA147360; JA147224, 1st Class Pte; JA147328, Superior Pte; JA147240, 1st Class Pte; JA147356, 1st Class Pte; JA147314, 1st Class Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Kôbe [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Hyôgo Prefecture] New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] Kokopo [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area] Manus Island [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) combined interrogation report for 21 Japanese prisoners of war captured in New Britain and Manus Island between February and May 1944 found not worth complete interrogation. The interrogations were conducted by student interrogators primarily for training purposes and the accuracy of the information was not verified. It contains information on personnel strength, special units, recruitment and conscription, morale and welfare, troop movements, casualties, Allied prisoners of war at Kôbe, ship movements, Japanese fortifications, internees at Rabaul, Japanese naval losses and Allied air raids between September and October 1943. The appendix contains a sketch of the Allied prisoner-of-war compound, barracks and hospital at Kokopo. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:32 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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