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Post by armyjunk on Dec 9, 2012 8:33:21 GMT 8
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Post by fots2 on Dec 9, 2012 10:42:20 GMT 8
armyjunk, those are excellent photos in the two posts. Thanks for posting them.
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Post by fortman on Dec 9, 2012 18:39:58 GMT 8
I second fots' message. By the way, Armyjunk also posted some wonderful historical aircraft photos on the Coast Defense Study Groups' website some time ago. Thanks for them too.
fortman
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Post by okla on Dec 10, 2012 3:11:26 GMT 8
Hey Army....My thanks, also, for these postings. I never tire of viewing pics of Corregidor from the 1920s and 30s. I always wonder how many of the peacetime troops, shown in the photos, were around to greet the Emperor's froops in the spring of 1942. Many of those "old sweats", I have learned over the years, kept extending their hitches in order to remain in the "enlisted man's paradise". Many "shipped over" one time too many and paid dearly. I once had an uncle, who served many years in the "China Navy", but fortunately for him, finally came home in the mid 1930s, just prior to Japan's expansion into the Yangtze Valley. Lucky for him as it turned out. I enjoyed the 1949 photos of war ravaged Corregidor. The "Rock" was certainly a bleak place, even 4 years after the last shot had been fired.
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Post by sherwino on Dec 10, 2012 10:18:30 GMT 8
Excellent stuff, army. I didn't know before that those guns have plugs. Nice picture of Ft. Drum's AA gun. I love those old pre-war pics. I think I didn't see those in Corregidor Museum. Thanks for posting those stuff.
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Post by wwalker on Dec 11, 2012 8:54:50 GMT 8
Great photo's! I wonder who all the people in the 1949 photo's are? My main reason for asking is I wonder if any of them were in the Philippines during WWII. Could be some returning veterans, who knows?
WW
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