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Item title: Postal service in the Japanese Army
Title (kanji)
Location:Australian War Memorial (AWM55 12/21)
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AJRP module: Australian War Memorial official records
AJRP series: Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications
AJRP sub-series: ATIS research reports
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Location details
Institution: Australian War Memorial
Call number: AWM55 12/21
Inst. series: AWM55
Inst. sub-series: AWM55 12/-
Item: RR-40
Item qualities
Quantity / desc: 22 pages
Access: Open
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Category: Information report
Item content
Creation date (d/m/y): 28/8/1943
Conflict code: Pacific War (1941-1945)
Keywords:POSTAL SERVICES, COMMUNICATIONS, MILITARY REGULATIONS, CENSORSHIP, INTELLIGENCE, MORALE, PROPAGANDA
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Languages: English
Area:New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago]
Rabaul [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area]
New Guinea [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands)]
Content: This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) research report on the Japanese Army Postal Service. The enquiry was received on 28 August 1943 and an answer despatched on 4 October 1943. The report provides a detailed overview of the Japanese Army Postal Service, including its organisation, classification system, packaging, postal rates, regulations regarding letter writing, restrictions and censorship. It also contains information from prisoners of war on attitudes towards censorship and the mail service. In future, questions on the postal service were to be included in the interrogation of prisoners.
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