| Item title: | 1st Shipping Construction Depot field diary, 1 July - 31 December 1942 |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/25) 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 enemy publications |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 5/25 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-299 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 19 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Official diary |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 21/1/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | OFFICIAL DIARIES, ANTI SUBMARINE, NAVAL OPERATIONS, SUBMARINES |
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| Japanese unit names: | 1st Shipping Construction Depot Oregon Maru |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Ujina (Hiroshima Bay) [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Hiroshima Prefecture] Aitape [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] Rangoon [Burma–Thailand, Burma] Singapore [Malaya–British Borneo (Malaysia & Singapore)] Manila [Philippines, Luzon] New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of Japanese publications captured at Aitape on 17 May 1944 during the Allied attacks on Japanese positions in northern New Guinea, which were intended to isolate the 18th Army at Wewak. This item is a selective summary of a field diary belonging to 1 Shipping Construction Depot, dated 1 July to 31 December 1942, which served on-board repair ship Oregon Maru, sunk by Allied submarines on 18 November 1942. The entries commence while the ship was serving at Rangoon, then Singapore and Ujina, before being ordered to Rabaul on 28 October 1942. The diary contains an account of the sinking of the vessel while en-route to New Britain via Manila. The survivors returned to Ujina for reorganisation. The item also contains unit and officer identifications, courses followed by Oregon Maru and names of other ships in the convoy, reports received on positions of Allied submarines and of ships torpedoed, suggested countermeasures to submarine attack, sketches of the attack and charts of casualties and cargo lost. The loss of the repair ship and many technicians was a severe blow. The diary recommended that in future only faster, more modern ships be used as repair vessels. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:10 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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