| Item title: | Diary for the 18th Army Independent Wireless Units |
| Title (romaji): | Dai 18 Gun Dokuritsu Musen Tai nisshi |
| Title (kanji) | |
| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM 82 1/2/500350) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | AWM 82 captured Japanese documents |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS material registered as B documents |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM 82 1/2/500350 |
| Inst. series: | AWM 82 |
| Inst. sub-series: | 1/2/- Items registered by ATIS as "B" documents |
| Item: | 1/2/500350 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 1 book, approx. 120 pages with entries in ink |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Official diary |
Item content | |
| Creation date range (d/m/y): | 5/12/1942 to 30/1/1944 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, DIARIES AND JOURNALS, MILITARY ORDERS, MILITARY OPERATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Japanese unit names: | 4th Independent Wireless Pl 8th Independent Wireless Pl 3rd Telegraph Regt Conscript Reserve 1st Telegraph Regt Conscript Reserve 123rd Line of Communication Hospital Alexishafen Convalescent Centre |
| Names: | MATSUMOTO, Maj; NONAKA Norimasa (Masayoshi?), 2nd Lt; WATANABE Tetsu (Akira?), 2nd Lt |
| Languages: | Japanese |
| Area: | Mt. Giluwe [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Huon Peninsula] Alexishafen [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Wewak–Madang Area] Nagada [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Wewak–Madang Area, Madang] Rabaul [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Rabaul Area] Palau Island [Central Pacific, Caroline Islands] |
| Content: | This item is a journal from the period between May 1942 and January 1944, recording orders issued to an independent wireless platoon in the 18th Army. It contains dated orders and reports concerning unit organisations and movements, deaths and illnesses, the transfer of staff between units, and promotions of non-commissioned officers. It specifically mentions the self-sufficiency drive on Rabaul, and a separate note inserted in the diary and signed by a Major MATSUMOTO warns of a surprise enemy attack on Rabaul. The back of the diary contains orders concerning troop organisation and movement in the Alexishafen region of Papua New Guinea, as well as noting the receipt of messages from the Third Communications Reserve Unit at Palau. This item was captured at Nagada in May 1944. |
AWM 82 captured Japanese document details | |
| Title: | Diary for the 18th Army Independent Wireless Units |
| ATIS number: | 500350 (201531) |
| Item status: | Original document |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Names: | MATSUMOTO, Maj; NONAKA Norimasa (Masayoshi?), 2nd Lt; WATANABE Tetsu (Akira?), 2nd Lt |
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| Japanese unit names: | 4th Independent Wireless Pl 8th Independent Wireless Pl 3rd Telegraph Regt Conscript Reserve 1st Telegraph Regt Conscript Reserve 123rd Line of Communication Hospital Alexishafen Convalescent Centre |
| Japanese unit names (romaji): | Dokuritsu Musen Dai 4 Shôtai Dokuritsu Musen Dai 8 Shôtai Denshin Dai 3 Rentai Hojûtai Denshin Dai 1 Rentai Hojûtai Dai 123 Heitan Byôin Alexishisu Kanja Ryôyô |
| Japanese unit names (kanji) | |
| Place of acquisition: | Nagada |
| Date of acquisition: | 05/10/1944 |
Other information | |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 10:08:26 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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