| Item title: | Shipping engineer handbook |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/10) 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 enemy publications |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 5/10 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-114 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 26 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Instruction manual |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 1/4/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | LANDING CRAFT, BOATS, IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, NAVAL OPERATIONS, TROOP MOVEMENT, TECHNICAL MANUALS |
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| Japanese unit names: | Shipping Bureau Staff HQ |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | China–Hong Kong Cape Gloucester [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Cape Gloucester on 26 December 1943 during the Japanese retreat from campaigns in the Owen Stanley Ranges. This item is a manual issued by Staff Headquarters Shipping Bureau in January 1941 on the construction, specifications, armaments and capacity of various landing craft, high speed boats, armoured boats and other small craft. It also contains charts on the time required for disembarkation and the major landing campaigns in China between July 1937 and November 1939. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:01:56 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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