Item title: | SAKIEDA Ryûji interrogation report |
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Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/3) 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 6/3 |
Inst. series: | AWM55 |
Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
Item: | IR-115A (Serial no. 186) |
Item qualities | |
Quantity / desc: | 6 pages |
Access: | Open |
Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
Creation date (d/m/y): | 10/7/1943 |
Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, SIGNALS |
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Japanese unit names: | 51st Div Signals Unit Teiyô Maru |
Names: | SAKIEDA Ryûji, WO |
Languages: | English |
Area: | 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 Warrant Officer SAKIEDA Ryûji of the 51st Division Signals Unit, who was captured on Goodenough Island on 11 March 1943. SAKIEDA, a 26 year old Warrant Officer from Yokohama, was captured in an exhausted state by Australian troops after the sinking of Teiyô Maru on 3 March. During the interrogation, SAKIEDA provided information on the organisation of signals units and the fate of the convoy which headed for Lae. |
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Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:07:01 AM |
Source: | AJRP staff |
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