| Item title: | MACHIDA Tatsue interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/2) 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 6/2 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-59 (Serial no. 102) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 7 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 17/4/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, SIGNALS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 115th Infantry Regt Signals Unit 2nd Pl 1st Sect Oigawa Maru |
| Names: | MACHIDA Tatsue, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Bismarck Archipelago [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands)] Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Lae [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Huon Peninsula, Lae–Markham River Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for MACHIDA Tatsue of the 115th Infantry Regiment Signals Unit, 2nd Platoon 1st Section, who was captured off the Trobriand Islands on 9 March 1943. MACHIDA, a 27 year old Superior Private from Gunma, was captured by US Navy patrol boat while he and his companions were making the way to an island after the boat, Oigawa Maru, was sunk in Dampier Strait on the way to Lae. During the interrogation, MACHIDA provided information on unit movements, communication methods, and morale in Japan. He also told the interrogators how his convoy was attacked in Dampier Strait on the way to Lae. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:54 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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