| Item title: | NAGANO Masayoshi interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/4) 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 6/4 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-156 (Serial no. 242) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 16 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 6/9/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, GUNS, MORALE |
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| Japanese unit names: | 20th Independent Mountain Artillery Bn 3rd Coy 2nd Pl |
| Names: | NAGANO Masayoshi, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Japan–Formosa Hong Kong [China–Hong Kong] Philippines Buna Area [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Owen Stanley Range] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Superior Private NAGANO Masayoshi of the 20th Independent Mountain Artillery Battalion 3rd Company 2nd Platoon, who was captured in Giruwa on 25 January 1943. NAGANO, a 23 year old Superior Private from Fukuoka, was captured in Giruwa while caring for a wounded companion in a pill-box. NAGANO was a gunner in his unit. During the interrogation, NAGANO provided information on his unit organisation, previous operations in Hong Kong and Philippines, mountain guns and their performance, and social conditions in Japan. The report includes diagrams of the BO Type Mountain Guns. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:29 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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