| Item title: | HOSODA Tetsuo 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-90 (Serial no. 150) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 9 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 3/6/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | ARTILLERY, IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, MORALE |
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| Japanese unit names: | Shipping Artillery Regt Akatsuki 2954 Taimei Maru Konoe Field Artillery Regiment |
| Names: | HOSODA Tetsuo, Sgt |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Japan–Formosa Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Rabaul Area [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Goodenough Island [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papuan Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Sergeant HOSODA Tetsuo of the Shipping Artillery Regiment, Akatsuki 2954, who was captured on Goodenough Island on 9 March 1943. His boat, Taimei Maru, was sunk on 3 March 1943 and he and other survivors landed on Goodenough Island. HOSODA, a 23 year old Sergeant from Gunma, was wounded and resting in a hut when captured by US troops. The official unit name of Akatsuki 2954 could not be identified by this compiler. During the interrogation, HOSODA provided information on the unit's organisation, artillery weapons on Taimei Maru, the Konoe Field Artillery Regiment which HOSODA had belonged to before being transferred to Akatsuki 2954. He also provided information on morale in Japan. |
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Other information | |
| Notes: | Interrogators seemed to have confused "hohei" (Artillery) and "kohei" (Engineers) in the report. |
| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:04:56 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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