| Item title: | Combat in the Mt Natib area, Bataan |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/13) 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 5/13 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-151 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 80 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Battle report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 13/7/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | ARTILLERY, BATTLE ORDERS, SNIPING, MILITARY OPERATIONS, CASUALTIES, INTELLIGENCE |
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| Japanese unit names: | 65th Bde Natsu Force |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Cape Gloucester [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Bataan Peninsula [Philippines, Luzon] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Cape Gloucester on 8 February 1944 during the campaign to retake New Britain. This item is an unbound book entitled "Natib Mountain area detailed combat report", issue by Natsu Force (65th Brigade), covering the period 9 January to 27 January 1942. It gives a comprehensive account of combat operations by the 65th Brigade against American forces on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines, including routine orders, strategy and tactics, battles, casualties, and materiel losses. This document also contain observations about US tactics and strategy, in particular the use of artillery and sniping tactics. The document appears to have been written by an operations expert or historian with Japanese forces who took part in operations in the Philippines. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:09 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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