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JAPANESE PRISONER OF WJ..R JPOW #3?

U.S. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Psychological Warfare Team

attached to u.s. Army Forces C-B-I

APO 689

PLACE INTERROGATED: DATE INT.ERROGATED: DATE OF REPORT: BY:

Ledo Stockade On or about July 1, 1944. August 28, 1944. Akune, Kenjiro.

--------------------------------., .. ,.,. NAME OF POW: A.GE~

HOME ADDRESS: EDUCATION: MARITAL STATUS:

INCOMPLETE REPORT:

EVALUATION:

Yili~.GUCHI, Yoshio 31 Nagasaki Prefecture ~awmar School Graduate. Married; two children. Has two brothers and a sister.

POW was removed to rear before interrogation was completed.

The POW was very cooperative, and spoke freely. He didn't seem to hold back even though there were many looking at him and listening to what he had to say. The interrogator thought he was telling the truth. He did a good job of caring for the rest of the prisoners. He took care of the food and medicine.

Army Background: Inducted December, 1939. Discharged in June 1941. Reealled

into the Army September, 1943.

INFORMATION & PROPAGANDA:

News: - "The Biruma Shinbun was the only source of news, and even that we were lucky to get one batch per week."

Radi~:

OWI Leaflets:

"Since coming over here, I haven't been able to listen to a radio."

"I haven,•t seen a · single leaflet since ooroing over here, but th~ leaflet you just showed me~ t The Bird 2£ ~a.kC4' (~}J.) really makes m: th1nk of my home, I wondered 1f · thatrcQUld be true ~~d real. I ~e it ~s very well written. Sin:ce I have two children of my own the lea.flet affects me

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quite a bit . The pictb"IJ.re of the old ':r.rom.B4 makes me think of my mother, for she i s about that age. If only I didntt have the chilctren, especially that son, I v./ould not worry t oo mu~h. Bt.1.t since he i s there, I always think about hoi1te, If my wife was the only one l eft back in JaJan, she could g0t married to another fellow, but as it is, she i s tied down . I really don't know what to think now , "

FIGH TING CONDITIONS:

Morale :

period like t he r est . "

"At the time I was with my unit, the morale was still very high, for we haven 't been over here f O"l' such a J.ong

"We had plenty of food , but the qualj_ty of the food wasn It so good as it should have been, The OK.'\ZU (a food

tha t goes with their main fco d,rice) was especially bad . "

than we needed . "

11 \"Je had plenty of ammunition and weapons . In fact with all the f ellows getting killed and ·.vounded~ we had mora

"We sure di d suffer of no plane support . Every 'lne was very disgusted (Gitsu ni zannen di e atta) , "

Medic <?l C~: "In our unit , we had many beri- beri and dysentery patienta, Ot her sick.'1es s wer e few, We wer e ve r y shor t of medical

supplies and t he treat ment of the sick was bad 0 "

Off icers: "Fortunate1.y we had t_,ood officer s . Our platoon l eader was especial ly good, He always t hought of us men, and

never a sked us to do some t hing he couldnit do . We all liked him the most , n

.Qomp].aints:

we had to go t hrough , "

Gii;NERAL I DEAS:

"In our unit, ther e wasn ' t a singl e per son who used to complain about f i ghting conditions or about the hardship

"In the 1'1AISSI NO CHOKUG0 1 it expl ains the r eas("n for the war . In this Imperial Rescript there is only one part I r emember that stat es the !'ea son for war. It saJ.d the war was brcught about by econom:::.c pr csstTe on Japan by t he u.s . and t he British. I do not know whether t he declaratior~ of war was before Q'n afte:;.~ t he wa:.:· o.;tually broke out . I do not t hi nk that -~he Emperor was notified before the attack was made,n

"I think it is dlfficul.t for Japm: t o win at pr esent in the Burma secto:c. I can It say how long Japan will last, but I am pretty sure that

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