ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 4365
FIELD REPORT (ADVATIS - 0077) 26 October 1950
| PW NAME: | HAN P’yo Hui (韓杓熙) (한표희) |
| RANK: | Pvt |
| AGE: | 17 |
| DUTY: | Rifleman (Trainee) |
| UNIT: | Volunteer Corps (義勇軍) |
| EDUCATION: | 3 yr |
| OCCUPATION: | Student and Hospital ward orderly |
| PLACE OF CAPTURE: | CHONGJU |
| DATE OF CAPTURE: | O/a 16 Sep 50 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | HAMGYONG NAMDO, SAMSU Gun, KANHUNG Myon, KANYONG-Ni (咸鏡南道 三水郡 間興面 間嶺里) |
| HOME ADDRESS: | MANCHURIA, CHILIN SHENG ANT’U HSIEN, TASAT’SUN (滿洲 吉林省 安圖縣 大少村) |
| INTERROGATOR: | Sgt SASAKI (ATIS) |
PW was cooperative and talked freely. However, he was in MANCHURIA only between the age of 12-16 and could not give detailed information. Reliability fair.
Chronology:
Jul 46: PW went to a farming village located in the vicinity of “ANT’U HSIEN” (安圖縣)
MANCHURIA together with his father and helped him in farming.
Oct 46: PW went to SUI-HUA-HSIEN(綏化縣), MANCHURIA to work as a ward boy at the #6 Hospital.
Set 46: PW returned to KOREA together with 6 other men.
#6 Hospital
SUI-HUA-HSIEN(綏化縣), MANCHURIA
Obs: Oct 46-Sep 49
PW was employed as a ward boy at the above hospital which was located approximately 1½ km N of the RR station. The hospital covered an area of about 200 x 300 m and it was surrounded by a barbed wire fence on 3 sides and the remaining side was a wood fence. There was only one entrance to the hospital.
There were approximately 13 buildings and houses in the hospital area. All these buildings except for 6 houses were constructed of stone. The largest building measured about 30 x 15 m and was 3 stories high. Patients were billeted in this building. The 1st and 2nd floor patients were enlisted men and on the 3rd floor officer patients slept. The officer patients slept on cots while the enlisted men patients slept on wood planks laid on the floor.
There was a western style church being used as a hospital in this area. The interior of the church was stripped of statues and 3 long platforms were installed. The patients slept on these wooden platforms. The patients sleeping in this building were bed patients with fever and dysentery
The other buildings were small and they were used for such purposes as billets for hospital workers, billets for doctors, kitchen, medical supply and surgery room, billets for convalescent patients and quarters for hopeless patients. The convalescent patients were quartered in the 6 wooden houses in the hospital area.
This #6 Hospital usually had about 500 patients. The largest number of patients crowded into this hospital was about 650 patients. Practically all the patients were military patients of the CCF. Only a very few civilian patients were admitted to this hospital and they were civilians holding important positions in factories, etc. PW observed that a few of the patients were Koreans and Japanese, who were members of the CCF.
About 60 Chinese nurses and medical corpsmen and 35 Japanese - mostly nurses - were assigned to this hospital. PW was the only Korean medical corpsman at this hospital. These nurses and medical corpsmen were engaged in giving medicine and changing bandages of the patients. Besides these nurses and medical corpsmen there were hospital workers who did such work as hauling water and cooking.
There were 2 Chinese medical officers and 1 Japanese medical officer. Although the Chinese medical officer was the director of this hospital the Japanese medical officer did most of the surgery. Besides these medical officers there were 3 or 4 Chinese civilian doctors employed at this hospital. All the patients in this hospital were war casualties and they were mostly injury cases.
The medicine used here was of Chinese and Japanese manufacture. PW believed that there was sufficient medical instruments at this hospital. They appeared to be in good condition. There was one X-ray machine here. The doctors had to take out the medical instruments from the medical supply room and return them each day.
The patients did not wear any special clothes or robes and wore their own uniforms. The hospital grounds were covered with large trees and patches of grass and flowers here and there. There was a grove of apple trees on the grounds also. In the center of the hospital grounds there was a basketball court end it was used by hospital workers during off-duty hours. The sign at the entrance of the hospital read MANCHURIA Medical Dept, #6 Hospital (東北総衛生部第六病院)
Airfield
SUI-HUA-HSIEN (綏化縣), MANCHURIA
Obs: Oct 46-Sep 49
PW occasionally walked by this airfield which was located approximately 1 km N of the RR station. The airfield was not in use and there were no planes, not even damaged airplanes, on the field. PW heard that this airfield was bombed by Russian planes in Aug 45. The airfield was surrounded by farmland with a few houses scattered here end there.
There was one continuous concrete runway shaped like a race track. It was about 50 meters in width. 4 or 5 buildings, believed to be hangars were located on the field. They were shaped like large quonset huts but they were all badly damaged. The airfield was deserted and there seemed no likelihood that it would be used again although the runway was not too badly damaged.
For the Commanding Officer:
KANAYA
