| Item title: | SHIMOMIDA Higari 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-103 (Serial no. 174) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 5 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 25/6/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES, IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, MERCHANT NAVY |
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| Japanese unit names: | Nozaki Unit Shiki Maru Kenbu Maru |
| Names: | SHIMOMIDA Higari, civilian military employee |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Goodenough Island [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papuan Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands] 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 Civilian Military Employee SHIMOMIDA Higari of Nozaki Unit, who was captured on Goodenough Island on 6 April 1943. SHIMOMIDA, a 19 year old civilian deckhand on Kenbu Maru from Kumamoto, was was captured by Australian troops when he and his colleagues were staying in a local village after Kenbu Maru was sunk on the way to Lae. During the interrogation, SHIMOMIDA provided information on ships he had worked on, namely Shiki Maru and Kembu Maru, and the social situation in Japan. He was called up to work on the ships and paid by the shipowners. He did not have much information on military organisation. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:04:19 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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