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Item title: JA147056 interrogation report
Title (kanji)
Location:Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/8)
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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-338 (Serial no. 480)
Item qualities
Quantity / desc: 7 pages
Access: Open
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Category: Interrogation report
Item content
Creation date (d/m/y): 17/7/1944
Conflict code: Pacific War (1941-1945)
Keywords:IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, INDUSTRY, FACTORIES, WAR - HOME FRONT, MORALE, AIR RAIDS, PRISONERS OF WAR
Australian unit names:
Allied unit names:
Japanese unit names:141st Infantry Regt 3rd Bn 11th Coy
Names: JA147056, 1st Class Pte
Languages: English
Area:Tuluvu [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain]
Kokopo [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area]
Rabaul [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area]
Yokosuka [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Shizuoka Prefecture]
Kanagawa Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Honshû]
Content: This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for 1st Class Private JA147056 of 141st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 11th Company, who was captured in Karai-ai on 21 February 1944. JA147056, a 24 year old 1st Class Private from Kanagawa Prefecture, was taken prisoner while sick with malaria having retreated from Kokopo to Tsurubu (Tuluvu). During the interrogation, JA147056 provided information on Allied and Indonesian prisoners of war in Rabaul, his feelings about Allied bombing attacks and the lack of air cover from the Japanese Army Air Service, and the Yokosuka Naval Construction Depot and Kurihama Military Warehouse (including a map).
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