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Re: Which group shot Capt. Akira Itagaki « Result #2 Today at 10:43am »
Hi
Here is the link to information about the career of Captain Akira Itagaki. The link will take you to a page with an alphabetical lists of names. Click on Itagaki, Akira and his career details will be displayed. The details include a list of ship postings and these are linked to details of each ship.
Re: Miscellaneous travels on Corregidor « Result #4 Yesterday at 10:31pm »
Hi Tiyoalan,
Welcome back.
I am sure you are correct, this is not the Spanish Fort at the Stockade area we are referring. I would say it is Bottomside north as I can see Bataan and part of the Mount Mariveles slope in the background.
Re: Miscellaneous travels on Corregidor « Result #5 Yesterday at 10:23pm »
Mr. Phantom has provided an excellent description of walking around in the area of the fort. I have never seen that toilet or if I did, I never recognized it for what it was.
Here is a photo of the concrete walkway beside the fort that he mentions.
Regarding the building supposedly constructed by the Japanese, have you guys ever taken a good look at it? It had significant importance for someone because it looks like they went to the bother to add outer concrete walls and a roof slab to reinforce the existing building. The wall you see from the outside is not the inner building’s wall.
An outer wall facing west and a much larger outer wall on the end facing south were added. From the south this building would be very visible from the ocean if there were no trees. The actual building is inside these outer walls. The east and north walls were not reinforced.
Also, the roof was reinforced with a concrete slab. It is a different color concrete making it look like it was added later, most likely when the extra walls were built. Remember the look of the cap added to C1, this looks the same.
To help everyone understand what we are discussing, here are some photos of this building:
Looking east, here is an exterior view of the west wall and the large cap on the southern end. The west wall of the interior building can be seen through the two doorways. The exterior doorways (2) are offset from the interior doorway (1). The end cap does not touch the interior building.
Note the roof of the building. A top slab of a lighter shade of concrete appears to have been added to the roof after the original building construction.
View looking south showing the walkway between the exterior west wall (on the right) and the building’s west wall (on the left). The doors on each side are offset.
Why would the building have two windows looking out to a concrete wall? Perhaps because the outer wall was added later?
The dark rectangles at the top of the building’s walls are air vents.
The perpendicular concrete wall at the end is part of the outer cap on the southern end.
Here is the view looking east of inside the southern cap (on the right, top and far end). The southern wall of the actual building is on the left. Near the end of the building’s wall is a doorway.
The area at the end where you can see trees is the south-east corner of the building which has sustained considerable damage.
I have no idea what the concrete pillar in the middle of the floor is for.
This is a view taken from inside the building looking towards the west doorway. The concrete exterior wall is in sight. There is one more window and air vent in sight also.
Inside the building looking south. You can see the doorway and the damaged top south-east corner.
Standing in the south-west corner of the building looking east. Another view of the damaged area.
Who or what is “ML 307”? This is chipped on the wall inside the building.
Does anyone know for sure exactly what this building was?
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Re: Miscellaneous travels on Corregidor « Result #6 Yesterday at 10:02pm »
Copied from above. "Benji", not described as being in the Japanese building in front of the Fort wall, but as being......
"ON TOP OF THE FORT, at the western end, and west of the American position built on the Fort, there is a concrete Japanese style toilet built into the top of the Fort. A Japanese toilet to me looks like a toilet seat cover flat on the ground or floor with a hole to do your business. Their are no walls around it or any remnant of any, wood building in the past? I asked those on the island years ago when I first discovered it if it was Japanese? No definitive answer, but it is just next to the only building that the Japanese supposedly built on Corregidor."
No toilets in the Japanese Bunker type building, sorry for the confusion.
Re: 59th Coast Artillery « Result #7 Yesterday at 4:18pm »
Yes, thankfully he did survive the war to meet my mother ten years later and marry her!
p.s. the attachment is the Veterans Day photo of him I put in the local paper. The picture of him is from the early 60s when he was stationed in Germany.
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Re: MG Towers on Corregidor « Result #9 Yesterday at 7:09am »
The last picture seems to have the anti-"white ant" trench area for the oil. It appears it would have been right up against the wood pole, if indeed this was it's function on this particular concrete base.
There are some nasty biting ants on Corregidor. You would be a meal on a "platter" so to speak up high, with no possibility of escape under war time conditions. It's amazing how fine tuned some aspects of the island were.
Re: Miscellaneous travels on Corregidor « Result #10 Yesterday at 5:32am »
I found this photograph in the Book "Our Boys in the Philippines" by P. Fremont Rockett.
The accompanying caption reads as follows:
"Corregidor Battery - From these guns Dewey received his first fire on the morning of May 1. 1898. on his way to destroy the Spanish fleet. The night was dark: the "Olympia" and "Baltimore" had passed when flames issued from the smokestack of the "Boston." which warned the Spanish who opened fire only to be silenced by the "Boston's" guns. After sinking the fleet a return we made and this battery destroyed."
I do not think this is the site of the old spanish Fort. But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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