| Item title: | JA145715 supplementary interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/8) 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 6/8 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-352 (Serial no. 498) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 2 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 15/7/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | MORALE, PRISONERS OF WAR, PUNISHMENT |
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| Japanese unit names: | 238th Infantry Regt 3rd Bn Gun Pl |
| Names: | JA145715, 1st Class Pte; YAMASHITA Tomoyuki, Gen |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Gunma Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Honshû] Kiari [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Huon Peninsula, Sio–Bogadjim Area] Salamaua [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Mubo–Salamaua Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA145715 of the 238th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Gun Platoon, who was captured at Melanpipi, near Kiari, New Guinea on 14 February 1944. JA145715, a 24 year old 1st Class Private (runner) rank from Gunma Prefecture, was asleep in a native hut suffering from malaria when he was captured by natives and Australian troops. During the interrogation, JA145715 provided information on his service experience, his desire to be shot on capture because he could not return to Japan and that he would be executed if forced to return, his attitude towards the war in general and that when he was in Salamaua he heard rumours that General YAMASHITA of the 14th Area Army had landed in Australia. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:29 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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