| Item title: | YAMADA Noboru 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-102 (Serial no. 173) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 12 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| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |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: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORT, MORALE |
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| Japanese unit names: | 115th Regt Headquarters Signals Coy 2nd Pl 3rd Sect Oigawa Maru |
| Names: | YAMADA Noboru, Superior Pte; OKABE Akimitsu |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Cape Nelson [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Superior Private YAMADA Noboru of the 115th Regiment Headquarters Signals Company 2nd Platoon 3rd Section, who was captured in Tufi on 9 March 1943. YAMADA, a 28 old Superior Private from Tokyo, was drifiting on a lifeboat after Oigawa Maru had been sunk when he was captured by a US boat. During the interrogation, YAMADA provided information on unit organisation, supplies, and morale in Japan. OKABE Akimitsu (Serial no. 172) was in the same boat when YAMADA was captured. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:05:24 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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