| Item title: | JA147269 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-348 (Serial no. 492) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 14 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| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |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: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, PRISONERS OF WAR, CENSORSHIP, MORALE, RATIONING, SERVICE LIFE, WAR - HOME FRONT |
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| Japanese unit names: | 141st Infantry Regiment |
| Names: | JA147269, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Hyôgo Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Honshû] New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] Rabaul [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147269 of the 141st Infantry Regiment, who was captured near Kometto, New Britain, on 27 March 1944. JA147269, a 29 year old Superior Private from Hyôgo Prefecture, was captured by natives while foraging for food, taken to an unidentified island and handed over to the US Navy the following day. During the interrogation, JA147269 spoke of how he did not enjoy army life, tension between the services, rationing and taxation in Japan, lack of mail service, suppression of war news, that he expected to be killed upon capture, that he had no desire to communicate with anyone in Japan and hoped to work in Australia or the US after the war, that he thought Americans more kind than Australians, that he saw Allied prisoners of war in Rabaul in good condition, and that morale was low due to lack of supplies and the intensity and perserverance of Allied attacks. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:11 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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