| Item title: | ABE Torao interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/3) 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 6/3 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-109 (Serial no. 181) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 6 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 30/6/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | MACHINE GUNS, ARTILLERY, IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION |
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| Japanese unit names: | 115th Infantry Regt Communication Coy 1st Pl 2nd Sect Oigawa Maru |
| Names: | ABE Torao, Sgt |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Trobriand (Kiriwina) Islands [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papuan Islands] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Sergeant ABE Torao of the 115th Infantry Regiment Communication Company 1st Platoon 2nd Section, who was captured in the Trobriand Islands on 12 March 1943. ABE, a 29 year old Sergeant from Gunma, was captured by Australian troops when his boat drifted to shore after his ship, Oigawa Maru, was sunk. His three other companions in the boat were killed by Allied gunfire before the boat reached the shore. During the interrogation, ABE provided information on the telegraph unit to which he was attached. He also told the interrogators that he did not receive news of home or Japan while he was on service. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:49 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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