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Item title: Operation orders, 1st Shipping Engineer Regiment: Defence of Borgen Bay
Title (kanji)
Location:Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/10)
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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 5/10
Inst. series: AWM55
Inst. sub-series: AWM55 5/-
Item: EP-119
Item qualities
Quantity / desc: 70 pages
Access: Open
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Category: Military order
Item content
Creation date (d/m/y): 21/4/1944
Conflict code: Pacific War (1941-1945)
Keywords:DEFENCE, BOMB DAMAGE, IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, NAVAL OPERATIONS, MILITARY OPERATIONS, MILITARY ORDERS, LANDING CRAFT
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Allied unit names:
Japanese unit names:1st Shipping Engineer Regt 2nd Coy
Names:
Languages: English
Area:Borgen Bay [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain]
Cape Gloucester [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain]
Tuluvu [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain]
Content: This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Cape Gloucester between 27 and 29 December 1943 after troops landed on western New Britain during the campaign to capture the island. This item contains operational orders for No. 2 Company, 1st Shipping Engineer Regiment between 6 October and 30 November 1943, including plans to defend Borgen Bay and details of shipping movements in the Tsurubu (Tuluvu) area. It also contains accounts of damage caused by Allied bombing in November 1943.
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Last modified:03/05/2009 09:06:39 AM
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