ご近所からサザエをいただいた。日本海産のサザエだ。
今回は、電子レンジで2回チンして、食べた。電子レンジに入れる前に、だしの素をたらして味をつけた。サザエは蓋をしてしまうので、楊枝を刺して蓋が閉まらないようにし、それから電子レンジに入れた。おいしかった。
以前、雑誌『丸』にマンモス潜水艦「伊号４０１」について書いたとき、ジョン・ゲーガン氏より資料・情報の提供をいただき、わたしは感謝している。
ゲーガン氏がこのほど"When Giants Ruled the Sky"という厚い本を出版されたので、アマゾンでさっそく買った。
かつてアメリカ海軍は多額の資金を投入して、飛行船の開発にいそしんだ。人、郵便物、貨物の長距離輸送が目的であったが、結局、開発中止となった。そういう話が書かれている。
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ご近所から大きなアジサイをいただいた。いま町内では、あちこちでアジサイが満開だ。
When I wrote a story about the submarine, I-401, in the magazine, Maru, Mr. Geoghegan helped me, providing with information & materials about the submarine.
Mr. Geoghegan has published a new book, “When Giants Ruled the Sky”, the story of which is about airships built by the US Navy from 1917 through 1935 to transport people, mails & cargo from country to country, even across the sea.
Got big hydrangeas from one of my neighbors. Hydrangeas are in full bloom in town now.
ご近所から大きなアジサイをいただいた。いま、町内ではあちこちでアジサイが満開だ。
カリフォルニア州サン・ディエゴにあるこの史跡に、昔、レンタカーで訪れたことがある。
By a rental car, I visited this old house in San Diego, CA, long time ago.
Copy-pasted the following from the homepage of the California Department of Parks & Recreation:
Home to one of the state's most distinguished 19th century families, La Casa de Estudillo was San Diego's social and religious center during the Mexican and early American periods. Built during 1827-1829 by comandante José María Estudillo and his son, lieutenant José Antonio Estudillo, this adobe-block townhouse eventually enclosed an inner courtyard. It has twelve rooms including bedrooms, a living room or sala, and a dining room among others.
The thick adobe-brick walls were coated with a mud plaster and painted with a lime-based whitewash. On top of the roof was a turreted balcony, accessible by a stairwell, where the Estudillo family watched the bullfights, horse races, and fiestas on the plaza.
The family, as well as various boarders and servants, continued to live in the house until 1887. After the family's departure, the house fell into ruin and would have possibly disappeared forever were it not for the efforts of investor John D. Spreckels and architect Hazel Waterman in 1906.
Spreckles turned the renovated property into "Ramona's Marriage Place," a tourist attraction based on Helen Hunt Jackson's famous novel Ramona. It operated as "Ramona's Marriage Place" until the 1960s.
Later, in 1968, the casa became part of the California State Park system and was restored as a house museum identified with the Estudillo family. It has been described as the finest example of a large Mexican adobe townhouse in the United States. La Casa de Estudillo is the only individual site in the park listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of five original 19th century adobes in the park.
La Casa de Estudillo has opened some of its rooms to the public to walk through and enjoy. This is one of the many new and interesting updates which have been part of the Casa de Estudillo exhibit redesign process.
I copy-pasted the following from Wiki:
The Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park, California, originally known as the Grand Union Hotel, was used as a resting area for people who traveled from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara.[3] Besides a hotel and stagecoach stop, it has also been used as a post office, church, restaurant and military school.[4] It is California Historical Landmark No. 659 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It played a major role in the development of the stage line transportation network in California.[5] The hotel was also the first business venture in the Conejo Valley.[6]
Today, the inn is owned by the Conejo Recreation and Park Department and operated as a historic museum. The museum includes a rebuilt Timber School (originally built in 1889), a carriage house and blacksmith shop, nature trails, and the "Tri-Village", a small group of three houses: the pioneer house, the adobe, and the Chumash "ap". There is also a gift shop located inside the museum. A director and volunteers operate the museum, being members of the Conejo Valley Historical Society (CVHS). There is also a Jr. Docent program for children and teenagers aged 8–18. It is a dominant cultural and educational gathering place for thousands of residents and visitors to Newbury Park.[7]
The Stagecoach Inn Museum is allegedly haunted, and is considered one of California's most famous haunted places.
その昔、カリフォルニアにあるこの史跡にレンタカーで行ったことがある。幽霊が出る屋敷として有名だ。
この階段の踊り場に、地縛霊が出るという。
２０２２年６月２５日～７月２４日、高知市にあるモデルショップ・ヨシオカにて、撃墜王赤松貞明展が開催される。ＭＳ・ヨシオカであるが、ネットでみると航空関連の商品があり、男の子の教育に良い店だ。
戦後、赤松貞明は「万亀」という飲み屋を経営した。そこの常連であり、幼少期より赤松と交流があった吉岡氏という方がいらっしゃる。この方の証言だけでも、ひとつの物語になるであろう。伝説の撃墜王に、魅惑的な伝説がさらに加味されるわけだ。興味深い。
戦後の赤松貞明がどう暮らし、いかに活躍したかはこれまで知られていない。その事実が初めて発表されるので、きわめて興味深い。
From Jun 25 through Jul 24, 2022, at Model Shop Yoshioka in Kohchi City in Shikoku, Japan, the exhibition of Sada-aki Akamatsu will be held. S. Akamatsu was one of the flying aces during the Pacific War.
How S. Akamatsu lived and what he did as his career after the war have been mysterious so far, and they will be disclosed.
After the war, S. Akamatsu ran a bar, named Maki. Mr. Yoshioka was one of the regulars of this bar, and had had a relationship with S. Akamatsu over the years since Mr. Yoshioka was a child. Mr. Yoshioka will speak about his experiences with Akamatsu, and his talk will be another intriguing story about the legendary flying ace.
かなり昔、ニューヨーク、スタートン島にあるこの家にレンタカーでいったことがある。史跡だ。閉まっていて入れなかった。
下の説明はウィキをコピペした。
Lon time ago, I visited this house on Staten Island in New York with a rental car. Unfortunately, it was closed.
The following is copy-pasted from Wiki:
Conference House (also known as Billop House) is a stone house in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City built by Captain Christopher Billopp some time before 1680. It is located in Conference House Park near Ward's Point, the southernmost tip of New York State on Staten Island, which became known as "Billop's Point" in the 18th century.
The Staten Island Peace Conference, an unsuccessful attempt to find a swift negotiated end to the American Revolutionary War, was hosted by his heir and grandson Colonel Christopher Billop, there on September 11, 1776. The house, a National and New York City Landmark, is located at Conference House Park overlooking Raritan Bay. The house is also located within the Ward's Point Conservation Area, separately added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Located by Raritan Bay. 裏が湾になっていた。
便利な時代だ。わたしが書いた記事「超空の銀鯨狩り、飛行４戦隊『屠龍』対Ｂ‐２９」（雑誌『丸』２０２２年６月号）に関係する米軍側１次資料をネットで閲覧できる。「米国戦略爆撃調査団文書」の中に、マリアナ基地から飛来したＢ‐２９による日本空襲の模様が書いてある文書を見つけることができる。いうまでもないが、わざわざ国会図書館へ出かける必要はなく、無料だ。
We really live in an era of convenience. The primary sources of my article below can be found in “U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey” on the site of the Japanese National Diet Library. Of course, you don’t have to go to the library, and the materials provided online are all free of charge.
日本の国会図書館所蔵「米国戦略爆撃調査団文書No.2-b(25)」に、1945年4月18日、久留米市北西部に落ちた山本三男三郎少尉機とＢ‐２９「ゴナ・メイカー」号に関係する記述がある。山本は「屠龍」で「G・メイカー」に体当たりを敢行した。下のページはその写真で、内容をおおざっぱに訳した。米側は「屠龍」を「月光」（アーヴィング）と見あやまっている。
〈本ミッションではＢ‐２９二機を喪失した。一機は明らかに体当たりだった。アーヴィング一機が二時方向上方から先頭グループの左編隊を攻撃し、さらにバンクしてから九時方向より接近してきた。アーヴィングは被弾し、煙と火をはき、五時方向下方へ急旋回し、それから三時方向へ旋回し、右編隊へ向かい、プルアップし右編隊の先頭の機の右翼に衝突した。アーヴィングはばらばらになり、Ｂ‐２９の右翼は折れてスピンしながら落ちていった。故意の体当たりと判断できる〉
The description related to Toryu flown by 2nd Lieutenant Mio-saburou Yamamoto and B-29, Gonna Maker, can be found in No.2-b(25) in “U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey” on the site of the Japanese National Diet Library. M. Yamamoto rammed the B-29, and both fell down in north-west of Kurume City in Kyusyu. The below picture shows the description. US pilots misjudged Toryu for Irving, or Gekkou, another type of two-engine night fighter which looked like Toryu.
下の「米国戦略爆撃調査団文書」は１９４５年5月7日、大分県中津市付近上空で村田勉曹長がＢ‐２９（「エンパイア・エクスプレス」号）を体当たり攻撃したさいの報告だ。「Ｅ・エクスプレス」の"Missing Air Crew Report"は米側資料サイト「Fold3」で閲覧でき、さらにくわしい墜落時の状況を知ることができる。
The report below, stored in “US Strategic Bombing Survey”, describes the ramming by Sergeant Major Tsutomu Murata against B-29, Empire Express, over Oita Prefecture, Kyusyu. The detail of the fight can be read in the “Missing Air Crew Report” for Empire Express.
下写真は「エンパイア・エクスプレス」号の「行方不明航空機乗員報告書」の２ページ目。「報告書」は全部で７ページある。
The below picture shows the 2nd page of the “Missing Aircraft Crew Report ” for Empire Express. The “Report” consists of 7 pages altogether.
わたしが書いた記事「超空の銀鯨狩り、飛行４戦隊『屠龍』対Ｂ‐２９」（雑誌『丸』２０２２年６月号）。
My article has been published in the June issue of the magazine, Maru, the title of which is “Toryu vs B-29, Hunting Silver Whales at Super-high Altitudes in the Sky". Toryu means a dragon slayer in Japanese. It was a type of night fighter which fought against the super-bombers, B-29s, shooting down considerable number of the giant bombers in 1944 & 1945.
