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- Diary of Honma Chieftain Chief Showa 16 - 17

- One diary that was hidden behind the Buddhist altar for over 60 years after the war, and was discovered by chance.
- I wrote the diary is the Navy Petty Officer Chieko Hirama Genosuke who was the navigator of the heavy cruiser [Toriumi].
- He is a father of Yoichi Hirama, a historian of the university student who is the editor of this book, and is a launch navy soldier who went to the end of the navy as a captain.
- The diary was written since the departure from the port before the war in November 1949, including the Southern Operations that swept across Southeast Asia, the Midway Strategy, the First to Third Solomon Naval Battles over Guadalcanal Island, the Battle of the South Pacific There was one year until November 1954.
- In the diary [Tottori] The real daily life that does not come out in the war history, such as the aspect of the actual warfare seen from the ship from the ship, the atmosphere of the ship, the life during the waiting period, the sense of the rustic hometown and the war feeling enormous It is written.
- This book emphasizes the original sentence, reprints as it is, including typos and hypotheses. In order to help the reader understand, we attached a number of pictures and footnotes to various terms and war situation that appear in the diary.
- It is a truly document that you can hear the breathing of war.

- Hirama Gennosuke
- Hirama Yoichi · Editing



Item Size/Weight : 21.1 x 15 x 2.2 cm / 463g

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206341

ISBN code

9784802206341

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