| Item title: | Lessons from the Saipan operations |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/30) 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 5/30 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-328 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 9 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Battle report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 5/3/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | AERIAL OPERATIONS, MILITARY OPERATIONS, ARTILLERY, CAMOUFLAGE AND CONCEALMENT, FORTIFICATIONS, DEFENCE, MORALE, NAVAL OPERATIONS, AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 16th Division HQ I 6551 Force |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Leyte [Philippines] Saipan [Central Pacific, North Mariana Islands] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Leyte between 20 and 27 October 1944 during the US campaign to recapture the Philippines. This item is a report entitled "Lessons from the Saipan operations", issued on 12 October 1944 by I 6551 Force, 16th Division Headquarters. Based on the US landings at Saipan, it contains information on island defence, training, camouflage and fortifications, use of hand-to-hand combat, smoke, communications, use of artillery at water's edge, water supply and enemy tactics. The US landings at Saipan on 15 June 1944 included convoy of 535 ships and were among the largest and most intensive of the war. Japanese defenders resisted fiercely and hostilities on the island lasted until 9 July. The loss of Saipan (and later Tinian and Guam) signalled the inevitability of an Allied victory. This document is indicative of the Japanese Army's final attempts to reform their defensive tactics and draw lessons from a costly defeat: "if we persist in employing the inflexible and stereotyped methods used up to now, the enemy will have the upper hand". |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:01:23 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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