| Item title: | JA147195 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| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |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, BOMB DAMAGE, PRISON-CAMPS, PRISONERS OF WAR, TRAINING, CONSCRIPTION, JAPANESE MACHINE GUNS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 17th Div 81st Infantry Regt |
| Names: | JA147195, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Kôbe [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Hyôgo Prefecture] Kure [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Hiroshima Prefecture] New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147195, a Superior Private with the 17th Division, 81st Infantry Regiment, who was captured by natives near Kometto and handed over to US troops on 24 March 1944. During the interrogation, JA147195 provided information on casualties suffered by the 81st Infantry Regiment, conscription and training, an Allied bombing raid on Kôbe in April 1942 and the destruction of the Manila Rope Works, faulty light machine-guns, and reports of an Allied prisoner-of-war camp being set up near Kure, Hiroshima. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:05:47 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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