| Item title: | JA147259 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-308C (Serial no. 447) |
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| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |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, AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, INDUSTRY |
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| Japanese unit names: | 23rd Field Artillery Regt |
| Names: | JA147259, Superior Pte |
| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Nagoya [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Aichi Prefecture] New Britain [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bismarck Archipelago] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report for JA147259 of the 23rd Field Artillery Regiment who was captured at Kometto on 29 March 1944. JA147259, a superior private, was starving and went to the local people for help. He was handed to US Marines. Personal details of JA147259 are not included in the report. During the interrogation, he provided information on aircraft production factories in the Nagoya area. He had worked for the Mitsubishi Heavy Industrial Corporation as a precision inspector in aircraft production. He gave information on other related factories, such as Okamoto Industrial Corporation, in the area as well. Four sketch maps of Nagoya, Mitsubishi Heavy Industrial Corporation, and Okamoto Industrial Corporation, are included in the report. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:56 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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