日曜日、仲間のJOCVとガダルカナル島の西の外れにある戦争博物館に行って見ました
ホニアラから約２８ｋｍ西に走って、林の中に入り込んだところにそれはありました
現地人のガイドが一通り説明してくれて、ひとり２５ドルの入場料が必要です
整地された公園のような場所に露天で飛行機や榴弾砲、高射砲などが展示され、それぞれの砲身に漢字で型式と製造年が刻印されています
ガイドが読んでくれというので、型式と砲弾のサイズそして製造年を西暦で教えてあげました
そのほかに戦後に遺骨集集団が建立した日本兵の慰霊碑や、連合軍兵士の慰霊碑などがあります
多くの兵士が亡くなったこの島の歴史を知る上で、貴重な保存物です
On Sunday, I visited the war museum which is located at the West end of Guadalcanal Island with JOCV friends.
Driving about 28km from Honiara downtown, it locates in the forest.
The entrance fee was 25 dollars per person and local guide explained the details.
In the well maintained like a garden, there were many kind of guns, cannons and airplanes.
On the body of the cannons, there were several carved seals such as the types, cannon ball size, produced date and place.
The local guide asked me to read them and I did for him.
Also there were many monuments for the Japanese and united army’s soldiers which were build by the delegations for gathering remains of victims after the war.
It was the very important preservations to know the history of the war that so many soldiers died.
