| Item title: | JA147514 interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/8) 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 6/8 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-367 (Serial no. 514) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 12 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 6/8/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY AIR SERVICE, CLOTHING, UNIFORMS, MORALE, PRISONERS OF WAR, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, AIR RAIDS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 38th Airfield Bn 1st Maintenance Coy 7th Flying Regt |
| Names: | JA147514, Sgt |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Aitape [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] Ambon [Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), Moluccas (Maluku), Ambon (Amboina)] Kagawa Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Shikoku] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147514 of 38th Airfield Battalion, 1st Maintenance Company, who was captured near Aitape on 29 April 1944. JA147514, a 21 year old Sergeant from Kagawa Prefecture, was left behind after he was wounded by a shell blast from an Allied warship on 22 April 1944. He was captured after he unwittingly walked into a US troop bivouac area near Atiape. During the interrogation, JA147514 provided information on uniforms and clothing worn by the 38th Airfield Battalion and the 7th Flying Regiment, morale and spiritual training and the Tokorozawa Army Maintenance School, Allied prisoners of war at Ambon in July 1943, the general economic situation in Japanese economic territories, markings on Japanese aircraft, Japanese batteries and casualties caused by Allied air attacks. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:47 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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