| Item title: | YAMAZAKI Kôhei 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-134 (Serial no. 212) |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 9 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Interrogation report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 30/7/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, DEFENCES, MORALE, CARRYING |
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| Japanese unit names: | 115th Infantry Regt 2nd Bn Machine Gun Coy 4th Pl Oigawa Maru |
| Names: | YAMAZAKI Kôhei, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Japan–Formosa Kokopo [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area] Dampier strait [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Tufi [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Papua, Cape Nelson] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for Superior Private YAMAZAKI Kôhei of the 115th Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion Machine-gun Company 4th Platoon, who was captured near Tufi on 9 March 1943. YAMAZAKI, a 27 year old Superior Private from Gunma, was was drifting on a boat after the sinking of Oigawa Maru when he was captured by a US patrol boat. During the interrogation, YAMAZAKI provided information on the unit organisation, non-Japanese labourers, morale and conditions in Japan, and defences in Kokopo. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:23 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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