| Item title: | JA145219 interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/5) 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 6/5 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-224 (Serial no. 335) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 6 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 20/1/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | FACILITIES AND INSTALLATIONS, IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES |
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| Japanese unit names: | 15th Pioneer Unit |
| Names: | JA145219, Civilian Labourer |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Buna Area [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Owen Stanley Range] Giruwa [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area] Rabaul Area [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Korean Civilian Labourer JA145219 of the 15th Pinoneer Unit, who was captured in Giruwa on 21 January 1943. Circumstances relating to the capture of JA145219, a 30 year old Civilian Labourer from Korea, were not recorded in the report. During the interrogation, JA145219 provided information on Japanese military operations in the south-west Pacific, and military installations in Rabaul. The main source of his information was the conversations between two Japanese prisoners of war. A sketch map of Rabaul is included. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:03:27 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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