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ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 4320

FIELD REPORT (ADVATIS - 0041)　22 October 1950

PW was cooperative but his intelligence was comparatively low. He repeatedly confused dates and locations and his memory proved very poor. Reliability poor.

Mar 44: PW moved from South KOREA to HULIN, MANCHURIA and was employed at a logging camp.

Aug 45: PW moved to a farming village and was engaged in farming near HULIN.

Dec 46: He moved out of HULIN and arrived in TUNGKINGCHENG. PW was employed as RR worker in the general area of TUNGKINGCHENG.

Mar 48: He was drafted by the CCF as a litter bearer at KAIYUAN.

Oct 48: PW was dispatched to CHINCHOU (錦州) near the Chinese-Manchurian border, as a litter bearer but the war terminated and he was transferred to road maintenance and RR stevedoring.

20 May 50: PW was drafted with a group of 300 laborers and they departed with approximately 1,200 horses. This group of Korean laborers followed the 7th Div NKA>

Observation Sep 48

PW was dispatched to an area immediately east of KAIYUAN Airfield as litter bearer and he observed the airfield 3 times during Sep 48 while hauling wounded 8th Route Army soldiers around the south side of the airfield to the hospital located 800 m east of KAIYUAN RR station.

The airfield was located 1.5 km east of KAIYUAN RR station and a low mountain was located immediately west of the airfield. A small farm village was located 3 km south of the airfield.

TACTICAL INFORMATION

Estimated length and width - 700 m x 1,500m.

Approximate shape - Rectangular. The airfield was surrounded by a barbed wire fence 4 m high.

Runways - Three (3) N-S concrete runways were located in the center of the airfield (dimension unknown).

Aprons - Three (3) concrete aprons connected the three (3) hangars and the runways.

Taxi-strips - A concrete strip connected the 3 runways along the south end of the airfield.

Airfield surface - Level surface was covered with grass.

Drainage - A ditch 1 m wide and 1½ m deep was located around the outer extremities of the airfield which connected with a larger ditch loading west from the airfield.

Access - A gravel road 6 m wide joined the airfield and the KAIYUAN RR station.

Hangars - Three (3) corrugated iron hangars with arched roofs were located along the west portion of the airfield (dimension of hangars unknown).

Billots - A large number of brick and concrete plastered barracks were located immediately behind the three (3) hangars.

Hospital - Two (2) x two-story brick and concrete plastered buildings 20 m x 50 m x 8 m with gabled, tiled, roofs were located at a foot of a low mountain 800 m east of KAIYUAN RR station. This hospital was used by the 8th Route Army and the PW observed a large number of Japanese doctors and nurses here.

PW observed two (2) single-engine fighters on one of the runways.

A low mountain 50 m high was located immediately west of the airfield but PW does not believe that it was obstructed to any flight operation.

Radio - An antenna was located on the roof between the hangar and one of the barracks.

Signaling devices: A windsock was located on a pole south of the hangars.

PW did not observe any new construction or improvements made on the airfield but he believes that it was well cared for.

Authority - Army.

Personnel Strength: The many barracks which were located behind the hangars were being used by the foot soldiers of the 8th Routh Army.

Flying activity - PW never observed any aircraft in flight while stationed in KAIYUAN.

PW observed two (2) single-engine aircraft parked on a runway located on the east portion of the airfield. 1 aircraft was similar to a Japanese fighter and the other aircraft was a fighter with the Chinese Nationalist Army marking.

PW was employed at CHIN-CHOU RR Station for a period of one month during Oct-Nov 49. He was detailed to load and unload freight from trains and he observed a large quantity of materiel moving from the north to south on freight trains. Some of the weapons and ammunition observed were as follows:

T-34 tanks - approximately 40

Japanese artillery (size unknown)

7.62mm “MAXIM” M1940 HMG

7.62mm “DEGTYAREV” DP LMG

GAZ-type trucks

Artillery shells and MG shells

For the Commanding Officer:

AIRFIELD AT KAIYUAN AS OF SEPTEMBER 1948 CULTIVATED FIELD