| Item title: | JA147359 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| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |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, JAPANESE AIRCRAFT, AIR RAIDS, NAVAL OPERATIONS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 49th Anchorage Unit |
| Names: | JA147359, civilian |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Aitape [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] Wewak [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147359, a civilian attached to the 49th Anchorage Unit, who was captured by US troops when he swam ashore at Aitape after the canoe in which he and 19 others were travelling was sunk my machine-gun fire from a US destroyer on 23 April 1944. During the interrogation, JA147359 provided information on the organisation of the 49th Anchorage Unit, the nickname for Japanese in-line engine fighters, how he was drafted into the Japanese Army, Allied air attacks at Wewak on 3 January 1944 and a naval bombardment of Wewak Peninsula in March 1944. Attached is a sketch of Wewak Peninsula and the location of Japanese facilities. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:05:29 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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