香長（かちょう）平野の戦争遺跡（高知県南国市）
旧 高知海軍航空隊のあった南国市には、7基の掩体壕（飛行機格納庫）とトーチカや石碑が沢山点在する。
南国市教育委員会では、生涯学習課で発行している「掩体は語る」「香長平野の戦争遺跡」のパンフレットで詳しく紹介している。
War ruins of Kacho Plain (Nangoku
City, Kochi Prefecture)
In
Nangoku City, where the former Kochi Naval Air Corps was located, there are
seven bunkers (aircraft hangars), pillboxes, and many stone monuments scattered
around.
The
Nangoku City Board of Education provides detailed information in the pamphlets
"The Bunkers Tell" and "War Ruins of Kacho Plain" published
by the Lifelong Learning Division.
Thanks to
the efforts of Yuri, who is in charge of cultural properties in the Lifelong Learning
Division, we were introduced to war ruins that we could tour.
練習機「白菊」空中衝突の碑
碑文「太平洋戦争が苛烈を極めた昭和19年10月14日、旧高知海軍航空隊練習機2機が飛行訓練中接触し、（1機は）包末部落のこの地点より北東５０ｍの地点と（もう1機は）松本部落305-1番地に墜落、12名の若者が無念の最後を遂ぐ。ここに殉職せし12霊の平安と永遠の平和を祈念してこの碑を建つ。」
Monument to the mid-air collision of the
"Shiragiku" training plane.
Inscription:
"On October 14, 1944, when the Pacific War was at its fiercest, two
training planes of the former Kochi Naval Air Corps collided during flight
training and crashed, resulting in the tragic end of 12 young men. This
monument was erected here in prayer for the peace and eternal peace of the 12
souls who lost their lives in the line of duty."
蔵福寺島のトーチカ
民家の敷地にあり、かなり分かりずらかったが、たまたま場所を尋ねた人の敷地にあった。
若い母親で本人はこれが何なのか分からなかったようで、丁寧に説明したら理解できたようでした。
Pillbox on Zofukujijima
It's
on the grounds of a private home and quite hard to find, but it happened to be
on the grounds of a person I asked about the location.
The young mother didn't seem to know what it was, but after I explained
it to her carefully she seemed to understand
高知海軍航空隊通信所＝耐弾式通信所跡（高知大学農学部内）
高知大学の地下に残る通信所で飛行機との交信を行う管制塔の役割をした施設。
ここから発せられた電波は、飛行場から北に７km離れた陣山送信所まで有線でつながれ、送信所の3本のアンテナから飛行機に電波が飛ばされていた。
現在も地下防空壕のように残っており、詳しく調査が行われた。
場所を学生に聞いたが、知らないようで、現在は地下に入る建物がその場所を示しており、説明の看板があった。
Kochi Naval Air Corps
Communication Station = Former bulletproof communication station
(inside Kochi University's Faculty of
Agriculture)
A
communication station remaining in the basement of Kochi University that served
as a control tower for communicating with airplanes.
The
radio waves emitted from here were connected by cable to the Jinyama
transmitter station, 7km north of the airport, and the signals were transmitted
to airplanes from the station's three antennas.
It
still remains today as an underground bomb shelter, and a detailed
investigation has been conducted. I asked the students where it was,
but they didn't know.
Today,
the location is indicated by a building that goes underground, and there is an
explanatory sign.
高知海軍航空隊通信所跡の調査 - 南国市役所:::::土佐のまほろば::::: (nankoku.lg.jp)
指揮所壕（高知大学内）
指揮所壕は農学部の牧場内に全体をツタに覆われており、一見、分かりずらい。
Command post trench (inside
Kochi University)
The
command post trench is located in the farm of the Faculty of Agriculture and is
completely covered with ivy, making it hard to tell at first glance.
三島村尋常小学校跡石碑
1941年1月23日、高知県香美郡三島村に海軍航空隊の飛行場を作ることが発表され、三島村の7割にあたる212万ヘクタールの土地が徴収され、315戸、約1500人の村人が立ち退きをさせられ、村は消えた。
Stone monument at the site
of Mishima Village Elementary School
On
January 23, 1941, it was announced that a naval airfield would be built in
Mishima Village, Kami County, Kochi Prefecture. 2.12 million hectares of land,
or 70% of Mishima Village, were requisitioned, 315 households and approximately
1,500 villagers were evicted, and the village disappeared.
海軍のトーチカ
アメリカ軍機を迎え撃つ２０mm機関銃を据え付けたトーチカが3か所あったが今は高知高専南東の物部川堤防に１つだけある。直径約１ｍ円形のでコンクリートの厚さは２０ｃｍで出来ている。
Navy pillboxes
There
used to be three pillboxes equipped with 20mm machine guns to shoot down
American aircraft, but now there is only one on the Monobe River bank southeast
of Kochi National College of Technology. It is circular, about 1m in diameter,
and made of 20cm thick concrete.
旧高知海軍航空隊之碑
現 高知空港の南方角にある。
Monument to the former Kochi
Naval Air Corps
Located
south of the current Kochi Airport.
開拓記念碑
高知空港の南側、旧高知海軍航空隊之碑の北側。
Pioneer Memorial Monument
South
of Kochi Airport, north of the monument to the former Kochi Naval Air Corps.
掩体（えんたい）壕
掩体は敵の攻撃から飛行機を守るための構造物でコンクリート製の飛行機格納庫。
南国市には高知龍馬空港（高知海軍航空隊跡地）の西側、前浜公民館の周りに7基の掩体壕が現存する。
Bunkers
Bunkers
are concrete hangars that are used to protect airplanes from enemy attacks.
There are currently seven bunkers in Nangoku City around the Maehama Community
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