Japanese booty after Bataan surrender Apr 1942

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Japanese booty after Bataan surrender Apr 1942

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Post by Kelvin » 05 Jun 2017, 20:32

Hello, I see a detailed list of captured arms by Japanese troop from campaign of Dutch East Indies, but I never see something like that after US-Philippines troop 's surrender at Bataan Peninsula, is it any Japanese doucment mentions their booty after Bataan surrender ? Thank

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Post by Akira Takizawa » 06 Jun 2017, 03:49

Senshi Sosho has it. I upload it.

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Post by Kelvin » 06 Jun 2017, 09:09

Akira Takizawa wrote:Senshi Sosho has it. I upload it.

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Hello, Taki, thank for your data, very helpful.
The chart provides the number of POW up to April 9 is less than normal history books ' figure : 75000 , only 70,380 POW were captured. Also Corriegdor or campaign for Panay, Cebu and Mindanao only accounted for 12,495 POW, also less than normal history books information. Some books say Corriedgor had 15000 POW and Mindanao had another 5,000.

And why campaign of Dutch East Indies figure had some more details like figures for bullets or artillery ammunition. Japanese claimed they had captured 89,071,820 small arms ammo and 1,728,585 artillery ammuntion in Java campaign. Did Philippines campaign had some thing like this ? Thank.
And do you have about 25th Army total booty report for the whole Malaya campaign ? I have one on Singapore alone.

Normally history books only concerned about Singapore alone. But Singapore booty report are very detailed, like number of ATR, bullets but did not have figure on artillery ammuntion. Thank

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Post by Akira Takizawa » 06 Jun 2017, 09:53

> Did Philippines campaign had some thing like this ?

No, the uploaded chart is the most detailed.

> And do you have about 25th Army total booty report for the whole Malaya campaign ? I have one on Singapore alone.

The booty in Malaya (Not including Singapore)

Approx. 7,800 POWs
23 airplanes
235 Armors
340 artillery
551 Machine guns
3,222 rifles
17 locomotives
795 railroad cars
2,723 motorcars

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Re: Japanese booty after Bataan surrender Apr 1942

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Post by Kelvin » 07 Jun 2017, 07:31

Hi, Taki, thank a lot.

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