| Item title: | JA147352 interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/9) 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 6/9 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-414 (Serial no. 565) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 6 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 28/8/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY AIR SERVICE, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, SIGNALS, HOSPITALS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 2nd Air Signals Regt 5th Coy 5th Air Signals Regt 3rd Line of Communication Hospital Cruiser Aoba |
| Names: | JA147352, 1st Class Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Gifu Prefecture [Japan–Formosa, Honshû] Aitape [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] Wewak [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Aitape–Wewak Area] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147352 of the 2nd Air Signals Regiment, 5th Company (attached to the 5th Air Signals Regiment), who was captured in Aitape on 22 April 1944. JA147352, a 23 year old 1st class private from Gifu Prefecture, took refuge along with six others in an air raid shelter during an Allied bombardment on the morning of 22 April. US troops later surrounded the shelter and the prisoner and his party surrendered. During the interrogation, JA147352 provided information on the organisation and history of the 2nd and 5th Air Signals Regiments, messing arrangements at Wewak, supplies, damage to the Cruiser Aoba, and the 3rd Line of Communication Hospital at Wewak in October 1943, |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:05:14 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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