太平洋における米国海軍潜水艦戦時哨戒航行図、1942年~1945年
同資料群は、「海軍作戦部隊記録群」(RG313: Records of Naval Operating Forces)に含まれる「太平洋における米国海軍潜水艦戦時哨戒航行図、1942~1945年」(War Patrol Track Charts of U.S. Navy Submarines in the Pacific, 1942-1945) から収集しました。
航行図には、航行コースとともに日付、時間、場所などが記されているほか、敵船の発見や敵船に対して行った攻撃の日時や場所が記されています。そのほか、撃墜されたパイロットの救助活動や、偵察によって明らかになった海岸線の様子などが記されている場合や作戦報告書が添付されている場合もあります。
戦時遭難船舶遺族連合会編『海鳴りの底から 戦時遭難船舶の記録と手記』(1987年)によると、沖縄県民が乗船し、米艦船や米軍機の犠牲となった戦時遭難船は全部で32隻でした。
米軍は南西諸島海域を「丸の死体安置所(Maru Morgue)」 と名付け、この海域を通る軍艦や輸送船を次々に沈めていきました。よく知られているとおり、学童疎開船の「対馬丸」や民間徴用船「湖南丸」、「嘉義丸」などの悲劇はこの海域で起こっています。航行図から、米潜水艦は艦船の主要航路である鹿児島―沖縄間や沖縄―台湾間で待ち伏せして攻撃を仕掛けただけでなく、沖縄本島周辺まで深く侵入してきていたことが分かります。
沖縄県公文書館では、これまでの米潜水艦に関する先行研究や米国国立公文書館の資料目録を参照しながら沖縄近海で哨戒を行った潜水艦を特定し、収集しました。全54枚。
資料サンプル
No. | 資料コード | タイトル |
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1 | 0000072662 | Track Chart – USS Grayback – Eight War Patrol, 26 Sep – 10 Nov 1943 (19 x 41 inches) |
2 | 0000072718 | Track Chart – USS Grayback – Eight War Patrol, 26 Sep – 10 Nov 1943 (with Enclosure on position, attack position, and density layer survey position) |
3 | 0000072663 | Track Chart of USS Grayback’s Ninth War Patrol, 2 Dec 1943 – 1 Jan 1944 (32 x 25 inches) |
4 | 0000072664 | Track Chart, USS Halibut, Ninth War Patrol, 21 Mar – 15 May 1944 (23 x 34 1/2) |
5 | 0000072665 | USS Nautilus, Key to Track Charts, 8th War Patrol (9 3/4 x 12 5/8) |
6 | 0000072666 | Track Chart, USS Nautilus, 8th War Patrol, Part I (13 x 21) |
7 | 0000072667 | Track Chart, USS Nautilus, 8th War Patrol, Part II (13 3/4 x 17 3/8) |
8 | 0000072668 | Track Chart, USS Nautilus, 8th War Patrol, Part III (9 1/4 x 12 7/8) |
9 | 0000072669 | Track Chart, USS Nautilus, 8th War Patrol, Part IV (5 x 16 3/4) |
10 | 0000072670 | Track Chart of USS Sailfish, 9th War Patrol (10 1/4 x 54 1/8) |
11 | 0000072671 | Track Chart, USS Sargo, Nansei Shoto (27 x 44 1/2) |
12 | 0000072672 | Track Chart, USS Sargo, Kita and Minami Daito Area (37 x 36 1/2) |
13 | 0000072673 | Track Chart, USS Saury, 9th Patrol, East China Sea (15 1/2 x 59) |
14 | 0000072674 USS Saury, 11th War Patrol, Phase I, 1-31 Oct 1944 (22 1/2 x 34 1/2) | |
15 | 0000072675 | Track Chart of USS Sawfish, 10th War Patrol (37 x 53 1/2) |
16 | 0000072676 Annex Able to Track Chart of USS Sawfish, 10th War Patrol, Area Maru Morgue (22 3/4 x 25 1/2) | |
17 | 0000072677 | Track Chart, USS Scabbardfish, 1st War Patrol, Nansei Shoto, Part 1 (24 1/2 x 33 1/4) |
18 | 0000072716 | Track Chart, USS Scabbardfish, 1st War Patrol, Nansei Shoto, Part 1 (with War Patrol Report) |
19 | 0000072678 | Track Chart, USS Scabbardfish, 1st War Patrol, Nansei Shoto, Part 2 (37 x 53 1/2) |
20 | 0000072679 | Track Chart, USS Scabbardfish, 3rd War Patrol (24 1/2 x 45 1/2) |
21 | 0000072680 | Track Chart, USS Sculpin, [8th War Patrol, Aug – Sep 1943] (20 x 62) |
22 | 0000072681 | Track Chart, “Maru Morgue,” USS Sea Devil, 2nd War Patrol, 1-29 Dec 1944 (21 x 32) |
23 | 0000072682 | Track Chart, USS Sea Fox, 2nd War Patrol, 20 Dec 1944 – Feb 1945 (17 1/2 x 23 1/2) |
24 | 0000072683 | Track Chart, USS Shad, [6th War Patrol], #2, 13-15 Oct 1943 (16 x 22 1/2) |
25 | 0000072684 | Track Chart, USS Shad, [6th War Patrol], #3, 15-18 Oct 1943 (16 x 22 1/2) |
26 | 0000072685 | Track Chart, USS Shad, [6th War Patrol], #4, 18-24 Oct 1943 (16 x 22 1/2) |
27 | 0000072686 | Track Chart, USS Shad, [6th War Patrol], #5, 24 Oct – 1 Nov 1943 (31 x 16) |
28 | 0000072687 | Track Chart, USS Shad, [6th War Patrol], #6, 1-6 Nov 1943 (16 x 22 1/2) |
29 | 0000072688 | Track Chart, USS Shad, [6th War Patrol], #7, 6-15 Nov 1943 (16 x 31) |
30 | 0000072689 | Track Chart, USS Shad, 8th War Patrol, 6-24 Nov 1944 (24 x 43 1/2) |
31 | 0000072690 | Track Chart, USS Spikefish, 2nd War Patrol, 11-23 Feb (30 3/4 x 42 1/2) |
32 | 0000072691 | Track Chart, USS Spikefish, 2nd War Patrol, 24 Feb – 6 Mar (30 3/4 x 46) |
33 | 0000072692 | Track Chart, USS Spikefish, 3rd War Patrol, No. 1 (30 3/4 x 28 1/2) |
34 | 0000072693 | Track Chart, USS Spikefish, 3rd War Patrol, No. 2 (30 3/4 x 22 3/4) |
35 | 0000072694 | Track Chart, USS Spikefish, 3rd War Patrol, No. 3 (30 3/4 x 51) |
36 | 0000072695 | Track Chart, USS Steelhead, 5th Patrol, 11-20 Apr -11-17 May 1944, Chart #1 (27 3/8 x 32 1/8) |
37 | 0000072696 | Track Chart, USS Steelhead, 5th Patrol, 20 Apr -11 May 1944, Chart #2 (32 x 52) |
38 | 0000072697 | Track Chart, USS Steelhead, 5th Patrol, [28 Apr -1 May 1944], (Small chart attached to Chart #2) (16 3/4 x 10 3/4) |
39 | 0000072698 | Track Chart, USS Stingray, 7th War Patrol (36 x 38 1/2) |
40 | 0000072699 | Track Chart, USS Sturgeon, 8th War Patrol, Enclosure (B) (28 1/2 x 37) |
41 | 0000072700 | Track Chart, USS Sturgeon, 11th War Patrol, 22 Jun – 21 Jul 1944 (26 x 31 3/4) |
42 | 0000072717 | Track Chart, USS Sturgeon, 11th War Patrol, 22 Jun – 21 Jul 1944 (with War Patrol Report) |
43 | 0000072701 | Track Chart, USS Sunfish, 2nd War Patrol, 4 Feb – 3 Apr 1943, Enclosure B (22 x 52 1/2) |
44 | 0000072702 | Track Chart, USS Sunfish, 5th War Patrol, [16 Oct – 14 Dec 1943] (22 x 55 1/2) |
45 | 0000072703 | Track Chart, USS Sunfish, 10th War Patrol, 15 Jan – 20 Feb 1945] (35 1/2 x 47) |
46 | 0000072704 | Track Chart, USS Tambor, 9th War Patrol, 25 Jan – 19 Feb, 1944 (37 x 109 1/2) |
47 | 0000072705 | Track Charts, USS Tilefish, 5th War Patrol, 18 Feb – 23 Mar 1945 (36 1/2 x 72 1/2) |
48 | 0000072706 | Track Chart, USS Tilefish, 6th War Patrol (27 x 36 1/2) |
49 | 0000072707 | Track Chart, USS Trigger, 6th War Patrol (13 1/4 x 56) |
50 | 0000072708 | Track Chart, USS Trigger, 10th War Patrol (Sheet #1) (20 1/4 x 47 1/4) |
51 | 0000072709 | Track Chart, USS Trigger, 10th War Patrol (Sheet #2) (31 x 51 1/4) |
52 | 0000072710 | Track Chart, USS Tullibee, 2nd War Patrol (36 1/2 x 78) |
53 | 0000072711 | Track Chart, USS Tunny, 8th War Patrol, 11 Mar – 1 Apr 1945 (29 x 40 1/2) |
54 | 0000072712 | Track Chart, USS Whale, 2 Jan 1945 (19 3/4 x 16 1/2) |
55 | 0000072713 | Track Chart, USS Whale, 10th War Patrol (26 3/4 x 36) |
56 | 0000072714 | Track Chart, USS Whale, 7th War Patrol (17 1/4 x 22) |
57 | 0000072715 | Tracking of the 5th Patrol Run, 15-25 Aug 1943 (22 x 27 1/2) |