| Item title: | TAKAESU Isamu interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/1) 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 6/1 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-11 (Serial no. 12) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 2` pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 19/10/1942 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, PRISONERS OF WAR |
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| Japanese unit names: | Kure 5th Special Naval Landing Party Kotoku Maru |
| Names: | TAKAESU Isamu, 1st Class Stoker |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Rabi [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Milne Bay] Pongani [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area] Sanananda [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for 1st Class Stoker TAKAESU Isamu of Kotoku Maru, who was captured between Buna and Pongani on either 25 or 26 of September 1942. TAKAESU, a 28 year old from Okinawa, was captured by local villagers with two other Japanese soldiers. He believed the others were shot by the locals. TAKAESU was a member of the Kure 5th Special Naval Landing Party and was in the Fujikawa Company which disembarked at Rabi from Kotoku Maru. During the landing, the boat was sunk. After survivors of his unit landed on the shore, he was ordered to go to Buna from Rabi to obtain a wireless transmission set. He was captured while he and his colleagues were eating coconuts given by the locals. He was not able to provide substantial information on his unit or the route from Japan to New Guinea. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:15 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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