| Item title: | JA148067 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-396 (Serial no. 546) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 11 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 24/8/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, AERIAL OPERATIONS, AIR RAIDS, JAPANESE AIRCRAFT, PRISONERS OF WAR, PRISON-CAMPS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 49th Anchorage Unit 1st Independent Garrison Bn |
| Names: | JA148067, civilian employee |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Kure [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Hiroshima Prefecture] Kagawa Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Shikoku] Manchuria Wewak [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] Hollandia (Jayapura) [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya)] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA148067, a civilian employee with the 49th Anchorage Unit, who was captured while weak from malaria by US troops at Vanimo, near Hollandia, on 20 May 1944. During the interrogation, JA148067 provided information on the organisation (including chart) and training of the 1st Independent Garrison Battalion, supply dumps on Palau, Allied prisoners of war transferred from Kagawa Prefecture to Dairen, Manchuria, a proposed prisoner of war camp in Kure, Hiroshima, numbers and location of Japanese aircraft around Wewak and the results of an Allied air raid on Wewak on 17 April 1944. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:04:11 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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