Description
Object description
Collection of mainly official papers relating to his Second World War service on temporary detachment to X Corps (US Army) Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, South West Pacific Area, as a Japanese-language translator, including time in Australia, New Guinea, Philippines and Japan, comprising: Preliminary Interrogation Reports on Japanese POWs (mostly dated April - June 1945); descriptions and translations of captured Japanese documents (similar date range); examples of propaganda leaflets directed at Japanese forces and produced by the Psychological Warfare Branch, US Army Forces Pacific Area; miscellaneous official orders and correspondence concerning Richnell; together with a draft of a postwar speech (12pp ms) concerning his wartime service in the Far East and his thoughts on the 'Cold War', and a brief account (3pp ms) of an incident from his wartime service in the Far East.
Content description
Collection of mainly official papers relating to his Second World War service on temporary detachment to X Corps (US Army) Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, South West Pacific Area, as a Japanese-language translator, including time in Australia, New Guinea, Philippines and Japan, comprising: Preliminary Interrogation Reports on Japanese POWs (mostly dated April - June 1945); descriptions and translations of captured Japanese documents (similar date range); examples of propaganda leaflets directed at Japanese forces and produced by the Psychological Warfare Branch, US Army Forces Pacific Area; miscellaneous official orders and correspondence concerning Richnell; together with a draft of a postwar speech (12pp ms) concerning his wartime service in the Far East and his thoughts on the 'Cold War', and a brief account (3pp ms) of an incident from his wartime service in the Far East.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1995-12