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Post by Bob Hudson on Dec 2, 2012 7:30:02 GMT 8
I have no idea how many or what photos reside on my hard drive. Yesterday I was looking for one in particular and ran across two post war photos of Corregidor so I placed them on my desktop. These might be old hat and recognizable photos to this group but I am posting them regardless. You experts should recognize their locations. One more to follow in the next post. Attachments:
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Post by Bob Hudson on Dec 2, 2012 7:32:58 GMT 8
Second photo Attachments:
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Post by pdh54 on Dec 2, 2012 7:50:05 GMT 8
It's one thing to see current pictures, but these give me goosebumps and the willies, especially the battery and the ferociousness of the destruction!
I don't know how the defenders survived with their sanity.
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Post by Bob Hudson on Dec 2, 2012 8:08:55 GMT 8
There were more than a few that lost their sanity. Japanese soldiers feared pow's who went insane. They thought they were possessed or some such nonsense. My father knew a couple of pow's who faked insanity and were never bothered by t he guards who gave them a wide berth.
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Post by fots2 on Dec 2, 2012 11:45:33 GMT 8
Hi Bob,
The first photo that you posted is actually one of the 12-inch mortar pits of Battery Koehler on Fort Frank. Karl and I were standing there one week ago.
The second photo is said to have been taken on Corregidor. I have been told that it is an interior view of the Engineer Ravine Power/Refrigeration Plant but I think it is the next building inland (Bldg. 313, Diesel Power Plant). The walls look correct plus this building has no roof where the other building does. Note the sun shining down on the generators and the floor.
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Post by Bob Hudson on Dec 2, 2012 17:48:25 GMT 8
Thanks for the information. In the second photo, it looks like a second photographer is contemplating the damage. I have only been there once and it was last year, even though I live a mere 10-12 kilometers away on Bataan. When I was there last year, I couldn't walk more than a few steps with out bending over and picking up some shrapnel. I surprised Corregidor didn't sink from the weight of it.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Dec 2, 2012 20:34:51 GMT 8
Thanks for sharing Bob Your first image may be Battery Koehler on Carabao Island, Fort Frank, the south 12 inch mortar pit. My image shows the openings at right from the inside. The 2nd image may be the Diesel Power plant in the Engineering Ravine, Corregidor Island, Fort Mills. My picture shows a similar opening in the far wall and that ship at the edge may be the same. I wonder what our resident expert Tony will say?
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Post by Bob Hudson on Dec 3, 2012 6:42:13 GMT 8
Thanks Karl, I was thinking that the thick walled ammunition storage constructions would be a safe and cozy spot to wait out an artillery or bombardment barrage. It struck me, however, that the concussion inside those walls would have been horrific. I cannot erase from my memory a story my father told me about a fellow soldier who survived a near miss from an artillery shell but the concussion wave popped the soldiers eyes in his skull like a balloon, leaving the soldier with two bloody holes where his eyes once were.
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Post by armyjunk on Dec 4, 2012 4:04:02 GMT 8
hello all Those pic's come from the REPORT ON WAR DAMAGE TO THE H D OF MANILA AND SUBIC BAYS all 77 photos are over here......... Http://tinyurl.com/boygfbfI posted those a couple years ago at the CDSG site....
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Post by Bob Hudson on Dec 4, 2012 15:19:24 GMT 8
Good to know. I received them from someone who found some photos at NARA and passed them on to me sometime back. Thanks.
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