CINCPAC-CINCPOA PRELIMINARY POW INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 72
NAME: AOKI, Ryūji 青木隆治
RANK: CPO
UNIT: YOKOSUKA 1st SNLF (KARASHIMA Paratroop Battalion)
9. TRAINING AND OPERATIONS
PARATROOP EQUIPMENT Total weight carried by a fully equipped paratrooper came to between 100 and 110 kilograms.
PARACHUTE When the battalion left JAPAN for SAIPAN, it was expected that intensive training would be carried on and approximately three chutes were carried for each man. This was the newly adopted Type 1, Model 2, which had replaced the Type 3. The Type 3 had been responsible for a large number of accidents in training, but it was apparently the type used at MENADO.
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