美國二次大戰B29飛行員逝世

Recently the Yomiuri News reported the following:
米サンフランシスコ近郊メンローパークの地元紙アルマナック（電子版）などによると、第２次大戦末期にＢ２９爆撃機に乗り組んでいたところ、撃墜されて日本側の捕虜になった元米兵レイモンド・ハロランさん（８９）が７日、メンローパークの病院で死去した。
　死因などは伝えられていない。
　ハロランさんは１９４５年３月の東京大空襲を生き延び、捕虜のまま終戦を迎えた。８０年代からたびたび日本に招かれるなどして、各地で自分の体験を伝えてきたほか、自機を撃墜した日本のパイロットとも再会するなど、戦争体験者らとも交流を重ねてきた。
　ハロランさんの公式ホームページによると、オハイオ州シンシナティ生まれ。真珠湾攻撃の後、志願して入隊。航空士としての訓練を積んだ。
(試譯文)
According to the local newspaper Almanac (electronic version) of Menlo Park located at the outskirts of Francisco of the US, former American soldier Raymond Halloran (89) who, at the end of the second World War flied in a B29 bomber and was shot down and became a captive in Japan, had died in the hospital in Menlo Park on the seventh. The cause of his death etc. were not told.
Mr.Halloran survived the air raid on Tokyo in March, 1945, and witnessed the end of the war as a prisoner of war. He was frequently invited to Japan since the 80s, visiting various place to spread his experience, and exchange experience with those who also had experienced the war; beside telling his experience, he repeatedly met with the pilots in Japan who had shot down his plane.
According to Mr. Halloran's official home-page, he was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After the Pearl Harbor attack, he applied to join the army. He received training as the aerial navigator.


Mr. Halloran was seen as an anti-war activist by many Japanese since the 1980s.