| Item title: | Field diary of 64th Line of Communications Unit |
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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-146 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 42 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Official diary |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 5/7/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | OFFICIAL DIARIES, AERIAL OPERATIONS, TROOP MOVEMENT, TRANSPORT SHIPS, MILITARY ORDERS, MILITARY PERSONNEL |
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| Japanese unit names: | 64th Line of Communications Sector 4th Coy |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Cape Gloucester [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] Tuluvu [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain] New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured in western New Britain on 26–27 December 1943 after troops landed on western New Britain during the campaign to capture the island. This item is a field diary of 4 Company, 64 Line of Communications Sector, dated 18 June to 13 September 1943. It contains details of shipping and cargo movements, troop movement and accounts of an Allied air attack on barge traffic and land installations at Tsurubu (Tuluvu) on 18 and 19 July and at Natamo (near Cape Gloucester) between 20 July and 13 September. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:01:49 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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