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Post by dmether on Apr 14, 2012 14:28:17 GMT 8
Came across this map from an Archives file titled "60th Coast Artillery, misc maps and sketches." Since it's dated Jan 3 1941 it's pre-war, maybe an exercise? Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Apr 14, 2012 14:30:14 GMT 8
Part 2 of the map Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Apr 14, 2012 14:31:28 GMT 8
Part 3 of 3 of the map. Attachments:
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Post by sherwino on Apr 14, 2012 20:09:14 GMT 8
nice stuff, david. I bet Tagumpay hill is near the Mariveles air strip. That's how I recall it from the book by Donald Young. It's just a few stone throws from my house. Though I'm having a hard time pin-pointing the exact location, I have some lead. Your pics are very very interesting.
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Post by sherwino on Apr 15, 2012 14:21:23 GMT 8
dmether, I was longing to do this research even before I joined this forum. My lead was the book called Battle of Bataan and a lot of stuff I found in this forum. The area is now on Barangay Balon, Town of Mariveles. I extracted the map from wikimapia. The hill top is being converted into a subdivision. Hopefully the location of the battery is still untouched, though the guns were moved from time to time during the war. I have been there less than two years ago, but didn't make my way to the battery area for lack of information. The bridge on the drawing must be of old times and leading to Mount Mawakis area, next to Mt. Pucot. Some folks told me there were AA emplacements on that place a long time ago. A friend told me that during his younger days, they saw military trucks and boxes of ammunition over those hills. The trucks were rusting and the boxes were half-burried in earth as if they were just dumped there. A policeman saw his ammunition find and he told were he got it. The rest is history. I doubt there if there's anything there to find. Times are hard and every piece of junk is now valuable. I hope I got this right. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Apr 15, 2012 16:58:40 GMT 8
I would have never found that, thanks for finding the location. I am wonding if the cut off road still exists? Here is another map of the location. Attachments:
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Post by sherwino on Apr 15, 2012 17:16:14 GMT 8
I guess it still exist. Some of the war-time roads and trails still do exist. Some are now being used as provincial roads. I did walk on the trails at the Battle of the Points(Mount pucot area to Quarantine). The road going up to the Tagumpay hill and down to the junction still exists and people who live around uses it. ATV's can go there. I did with my motorbike.
Hand-written maps can differ a bit from the actual sites, but the old pictures in this forum help. There are some trails present in some hand-written maps and there are some not present. If you zoom-in using google earth or wikimapia and compare it with the old maps, you might be able to see that they still exist.
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Post by sherwino on Apr 15, 2012 17:17:24 GMT 8
By the way, where are you getting those maps?
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Post by sherwino on May 3, 2012 20:56:55 GMT 8
Dmether, just a follow up on this topic...
Can you interpret or tell me about the Tagumpay Hill map? I am wondering what are those connected with the CP.
I have been up there last weekend, went thru what is probably the cut-off, and off to the cemetery ridge. Almost found nothing until I interviewed a resident. He led me to the remains of a concrete slab on Tagumpay Hill which was ignorantly dug by crazy treasure hunters. No other find but rediscovering the place is a good experience. My mind did try to picture the probable locations of the tunnels and the battery.
Pictures are to follow maybe next week, but I guess not that interesting. I only borrowed a camera but forgot to download it. Mine was not available.
It is a race against time since houses are sprouting there except for some clearings. And a race against crazy treasure hunters desecrating pieces of history.
I hope you can dig more of those stuff.
Best regards.
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Post by dmether on May 5, 2012 8:36:46 GMT 8
I've also found that in other places in the Philippines, sites being destroyed or built over. Look at Camp O'Donnell, the American part of the camp is now a housing area.
I got the maps in the US National Archives, spent two months there last year.
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