A stone monument (50 cm high, 30 cm wide, 15 cm deep), which sacrifice a US military aircraft pilot who crashed in Tokushima at the end of the Pacific War, is quietly beside the embankment in Toyooka, Matsumo -cho facing the Kii Waterway.。A student from a prefecture who studies journalism at Chuo University is working on a survey of the bereaved family of the builder on a memorial monument that is almost unknown locally.It will be summarized as a documentary work by around next summer.
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"Actually, there are things that I haven't talked to to anyone. I was always sorry."
Former military police were telling their families in 1985, 40 years after the end of the war.Takao Shima from Tokushima City (died in 1988).When she was hospitalized for a serious illness, she died three years later after built a monument to her second son, Kayoko (66), who was accompanied by her second son, Kayoko (66).
記録によると４５年７月２４日、旧徳島海軍航空基地（松茂町）を攻撃した米軍の戦闘機が海岸近くに墜落した。対空砲火で撃ち落とされたとみられ、搭乗していた米軍士官は瀕死の重体で、やがて死亡。近くで火葬・埋葬された後、遺骨は４５年１２月末までに米軍が持ち帰った。
At that time, the island, who rushed to the scene, was shocked to see the gathering people stepping on, kicking, and poking in bamboo.
The identity of the officers turned out to 2018, 33 years after the monument was built.It is said that there was a fiancee who was planning to marry in the fall of 1945, a ledge, Captain Clifford Leslie Bausole, a Clifford Leslie Bausole, from Illinois.
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"I never knew that I was born and raised in Tokushima City. I want to delve into more information and tell many people how the memorial monument was built."
Nao Fujikawa (19), a two -year -old Faculty of Economics, decided to create images and manuscripts in the seminar of journalism research, and chose the theme of this memorial monument, which is not well known in the local area.
Mr. Fujikawa obtained a record of the U.S. side from Junji Omori (73) (Yoshinogawa City) and war history researchers of the "Tokushima Shiragiku Special Attack", which conducted the identity survey of the lieutenant, and read it carefully.On August 4th, we interviewed Kayoko about how Shima -san built a monument."Please tell me an episode that understands Takao's personality."
Kayoko recalls Takao, who was the eldest son of five siblings, "I died one after another, and I took care of my three younger brothers and one sister."The death period was approaching, and the feeling of raising it was overflowing. He complained that" the importance of life has no enemies or an ally. ""Was said.
After about 50 minutes of telephone interviews, Mr. Fujikawa said, "I found out that some people had the right feeling in an unusual situation during the war.""It's painful and I want to look away. Some places can't imagine the feelings of the people at the time."In the future, he wants to search for the bereaved family of Captain Bausol and inform him of his memorial monument if he can contact him.
"I realized again that there are many young people in the victims of the war. If the war occurs, young people will be involved again.I want to convey the historical fact of. "(Hiroyuki Mochizuki)
The memorial monument built in 1985 is engraved as "US Air Force Port Sikorsky Machine Crew Crew P38 Battle of Battle Tsukazuka, August 10th."It is based on Takao Shima's memory, but a subsequent investigation shows the U.S. military officer's affiliation and name, and the fighter was identified as the Navy's "Boat Sikorsky F4U -1D Corsair", and the crash was identified.In 2019, local residents built a wooden pillar (about 2 meters in height) next to the monument and described it in English as "Mourning for the US Navy Bausol."