Item title: | JA147131 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-344 (Serial no. 487) |
Item qualities | |
Quantity / desc: | 7 pages |
Access: | Open |
Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
Creation date (d/m/y): | 11/7/1944 |
Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
Keywords: | AIR RAIDS, IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, VESSELS, PRISONERS OF WAR |
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Names: | JA147131, Civilian Cook |
Languages: | English |
Area: | Guadalcanal [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Solomon Islands] Admiralty Islands [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] Manus Island [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands] Rabaul [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area] Kavieng [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Ireland] Wakayama Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Honshû] |
Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147131 a civilian Army cook, who was captured at Salami Plantation, Admiralty Islands, on 10 March 1944. JA147131, a 33 year old civilian cook from Wakayama Prefecture employed by the Army, was captured by US troops while ill and in a shell hole. During the interrogation, JA147131 answered all questions and volunteered extensive information on Japanese Army ships including specifications and armaments, sightings of Allied prisoners of war, and Allied air raids on Rabaul, Guadalcanal, Kavieng and Manus Island between October 1943 and February 1944. |
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Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:52 AM |
Source: | AJRP staff |
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