| Item title: | JA147045 interrogation report |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 6/7) 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 6/7 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 6/- |
| Item: | IR-309B (Serial no. 448) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 2 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 5/6/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, IRON AND STEEL WORKS, DEFENCE, AIR RAIDS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 53 Infantry Regt |
| Names: | JA147045, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Tokyo [Japan–Formosa, Honshû] Talasea [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Kimbe Bay] 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 JA147045 of the 53rd Infantry Regiment, who was captured at Karai-ai in New Britain on 17 February 1944. JA147045 was ill with malaria when he was captured by US Marines. During the interrogation, JA147045 provided information on defence in Rabaul and Allied air attacks there, and Oshima Steel Mills in Tokyo where he had worked as a lathe operator. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:55 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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