| Item title: | OKABE Akimitsu 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-101 (Serial no. 172) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 11 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 24/6/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, CABLE LAYING, MORALE |
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| Japanese unit names: | 115th Regt Headquarters Signals Coy 1st Pl 2nd Sect Oikawa Maru |
| Names: | OKABE Akimitsu, Cpl; YAMADA Noboru |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Cape Nelson [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua] Tufi [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Cape Nelson] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Corporal OKABE Akimitsu of the 115th Regiment Headquarters Signals Company 1st Platoon 2nd Section, who was captured in Tufi on 9 March 1943. His section was in charge of cable laying. OKABE Akimitsu, a 29 year old Corporal from Gunma, was drifting in a collapsible lifeboat after abandoning Oikawa Maru when he was captured by a US minesweeper. YAMADA Noboru (Serial no. 173) was in the same boat when OKABE was captured. During the interrogation, OKABE provided information on his unit's organisation, equipment for the Signals Company, his training in signals, and morale in Japan. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:04:56 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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