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Post by batteryboy on May 29, 2013 0:07:29 GMT 8
Now I have to go to the Revilla movie archives and look for that specific movie. You wont get away with this one!
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Post by The Phantom on Jun 7, 2013 4:14:13 GMT 8
I'm sure it would be a good laugh after all these years Batteryboy, a fascinating day in the wilds east of Manila. An interesting viewing in Ermita at the old Luneta Theater across from Luneta Park.
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Post by The Phantom on Jun 7, 2013 4:16:54 GMT 8
I forgot , my nephews in Manila say it shows on the Tagolog movie channels from time to time.
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Post by batteryboy on Jul 4, 2013 13:40:09 GMT 8
Hey phantom, do remember having a fellow actor here by the name of Cisco Oliver, he was an African-American import for a professional basketball team and his role was a defector that helped the insurgents with their cause.
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Post by Dan Morrison (dan@usm1917.com) on Jan 5, 2015 22:44:37 GMT 8
Hi All: Just discovered your site. Am imminently finishing a book on the P1913/M1917 bayonet. Included is a section on all the countries that used the rifles for these bayonets; now, with your postings, I can add Japan! Thank you. Two questions, please: first - are their any photos available for use in my book of the M1917s on Bataan/Corregidor; second - there is a quote from John Chamberlain, extract from Intercept Station C, is this source available so I can use the quote about M1917 rifle reclamation? Any help would be very much appreciated and I would be most happy to cite your name (if desired) as a contributor to the book. Regards, Dan
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Post by rickthelibrarian on Mar 19, 2015 9:48:16 GMT 8
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Post by batteryboy on Mar 23, 2015 22:14:54 GMT 8
Interesting find and thanks for sharing. In something related to Frankford Arsenal, a buddy of mine Karl Schmidt found a .50 cal BMG round just across the YMCA building and in an old MG position covering the road. If I recall the late Al McGrew 60th CA (AA) who was nearby Battery Ramsay manned an MG post on the same spot in anticipation of a Japanese land assault in 1942. Going back to the BMG round, it was stamped FA 1937. A 4 or 5 year old ammo is still considered "new" dispelling the myth that the Rock small arms and MG ammo were old and out of date by the time the war started.
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Post by chadhill on Mar 24, 2015 0:29:04 GMT 8
Hi All: Just discovered your site. Am imminently finishing a book on the P1913/M1917 bayonet. Included is a section on all the countries that used the rifles for these bayonets; now, with your postings, I can add Japan! Thank you. Two questions, please: first - are their any photos available for use in my book of the M1917s on Bataan/Corregidor; second - there is a quote from John Chamberlain, extract from Intercept Station C, is this source available so I can use the quote about M1917 rifle reclamation? Any help would be very much appreciated and I would be most happy to cite your name (if desired) as a contributor to the book. Regards, Dan Hello Dan, That quote of John Chamberlain's in french2rock's post (on page 1 of this thread) comes from page 52 of the book "Intercept Station C, From Olongapo Through the Evacuation of Corregidor" which is available from the U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association in Pensacola, FL (see . "Before the war began, the Fleet Radio Unit (FRU) Corregidor, had a motley collection of weapons on loan from the First Separate Battalion, U.S. Marines, at Cavite. On 10 December 1941 the Japanese Air Force completely destroyed Cavite. From where we watched on Corregidor a dense column of heavy black smoke arose 15,000 to 20,000 feet into the air with a diameter of that of Cavite. The Marines streamed over to Corregidor and became Beach Defense. However, as most arrived with only the clothes on their bodies and nothing else, they requested the return of their weapons. That reduced FRU armament to Pete Waldum's Camp Perry Model .45 Colt, my model 1911 .45 and my .22 caliber Stevens Buckhorn rifle.
A few weeks later some of our Chiefs drove our own van to the north shore of the Rock where a barge loaded with model 1917 Enfield rifles had been sunk in shallow water by Japanese bombers. They carried out case after case of these rifles until they had enough for every man in FRU. These they delivered to the tunnel where they were stored outside. Back in 1918 the guns must have been boiled in cosmoline, because even though submerged in salt water while on the barge they were too well cosmolined to rust.
Pete Waldum and I were the only two in the FRU who would admit we could field strip a rifle and clean it, so Honest John Lietwiler detailed us to clean them. It was a messy job. The cosmoline in the barrels had hardened into ropes the length of the bore, and the stocks, which were made from yellow pine instead of walnut, were so saturated that after cleaning we had to lay the rifles in the sun and let it melt out the cosmoline which we kept wiping off until the stocks were dry. When we finished Honest John issued a rifle to each officer and man.
About this time the Commandant, 16th Naval District, assigned an old time Chief Gunner, whom I believe fought against Sandino's guerrillas in Nicaragua, to be in charge of providing us with weapons. He issued to us two Marlin model 1916 machine guns intended for mounting on Navy seaplanes. At Cavite, mounts had been cast to hold the guns and each was provided with a single ammunition belt manufactured from Navy canvas. He also brought us a Browning Automatic Rifle, a Lewis machine gun and a few other goodies. In the meantime the radio operators for NPO had moved in with us. Commander Callahan, their skipper, assigned tunnel defense to some of his surplus personnel who were armed with World War I trench shotguns."
Incidentally, I believe that the Chief Gunner referred to above was likely Warrant Gunner (formerly Chief Gunner) Leon John Otto. Otto was probably instrumental in salvaging the Hudson 1.1 inch AA gun from the Cavite docks. That weapon, left behind by the cruiser Houston, was transported to Mariveles after the Cavite Naval Yard was abandoned, and then shipped to Corregidor where it was transferred to the army and mounted on top of Malinta Hill. Admiral Rockwell may well have become acquainted with Otto during his service with the Naval Ammunition Depot at Cavite, and later on Corregidor. (Gunner Leon John Otto as a POW) For more about Otto see: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3422750corregidor.proboards.com/thread/532/malinta-hill?page=23
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