Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 3, 2015 15:46:52 GMT 8
GENERAL WAINWRIGHT AND THE NURSES MEMORIAL ON CORREGIDOR
He certainly deserves a thread for himself and I start out with an album about his memorial on Corregidor. I hope others will contribute.
I established this album about the General Wainwright and the Nurses Memorial on Corregidor with 49 images. I think I done a good job, it is presented for you to imagining how it really looks and you get the feeling you actually visited it yourself. There are many plaques with descriptions or with words from WWII personalities and in the album you can zoom in for easy reading.
I expanded the album to some related sites on Corregidor, the Gen. Wainwright surrender site and two other sites to remember the nurses.
One observation of the memorial extended over two years how the landscaping was renewed. When CFI first pulled all the memorial vegetation I got scared and wondered what they were doing but it was simply just renewing the landscaping.
This is the URL with 49 images:
app.photobucket.com/u/PI-Sailor/a/2f7362a8-c501-4622-a49d-496b12feb4c8
Here are 11 sample pictures but they are very small and the inscriptions are hard to read I strogly recommend that you view the album! All these sample pictures were shot in 2006, the 17th Feb.
X878 Gen.Wainwright and the 'Angels of Bataan' Memorial Marker sign on Corregidor Island. The general’s name is misspelled but it is the idea that counts!
X879 Wainwright Memorial, view from the south. The Memorial is left and the former Island Trolley bridge is straight ahead.
X880 Corregidor Bottomside, copyright by Kevin Hamdorf, scanned from a postcard. On here I marked all the locations shown in this album.
X881 Corregidor Rededication Plaque Marker, it is located on the right Memorial Stone. Remember in the album you can zoom on all the plaques.
X882 looking north over and thru the General Wainwright and the Nurses Memorial on Corregidor, the trolley bridge is in back, about in the middle of the picture. This is a full view of the memorial and also shows both, the Philippine and US flags displayed. The right stone has the re dedication plaque; the left stone has the nurses’ plaque. The middle stone has plaques on all four sides and is dedicated to Gen. Wainwright and all his troops and all Allied personnel.
X883 the Medal of Honor Citation from President Truman to General Wainwright on the 10 Sep. 1945
X884 this plaque of the general is in front of that middle stone, in the album is a much better picture.
X885 words of Brigadier General Carlos Romulo about General Wainwright. Gen. Romulo served on Corregidor with both Gen. MacArthur and Wainwright. He held important posts in the post WWII Philippines.
X886 the plaque with a list of individuals and organizations who made the memorial possible on the back of the memorial; my hat is off to all of them!
X887 on Samat Memorial Shrine amongst many other markers is also this marker for the nurses of WWII in the Philippines. In the album you have good readable copies of all three nurses’ memorial plaques, one on Corregidor, this one on Mt. Samat and one in Limay put up by Edna Binkowski with the help of local resources.
X888 on the left side of the middle memorial stone is a plaque with a quote of the General himself.
He certainly deserves a thread for himself and I start out with an album about his memorial on Corregidor. I hope others will contribute.
I established this album about the General Wainwright and the Nurses Memorial on Corregidor with 49 images. I think I done a good job, it is presented for you to imagining how it really looks and you get the feeling you actually visited it yourself. There are many plaques with descriptions or with words from WWII personalities and in the album you can zoom in for easy reading.
I expanded the album to some related sites on Corregidor, the Gen. Wainwright surrender site and two other sites to remember the nurses.
One observation of the memorial extended over two years how the landscaping was renewed. When CFI first pulled all the memorial vegetation I got scared and wondered what they were doing but it was simply just renewing the landscaping.
This is the URL with 49 images:
app.photobucket.com/u/PI-Sailor/a/2f7362a8-c501-4622-a49d-496b12feb4c8
Here are 11 sample pictures but they are very small and the inscriptions are hard to read I strogly recommend that you view the album! All these sample pictures were shot in 2006, the 17th Feb.
X878 Gen.Wainwright and the 'Angels of Bataan' Memorial Marker sign on Corregidor Island. The general’s name is misspelled but it is the idea that counts!
X879 Wainwright Memorial, view from the south. The Memorial is left and the former Island Trolley bridge is straight ahead.
X880 Corregidor Bottomside, copyright by Kevin Hamdorf, scanned from a postcard. On here I marked all the locations shown in this album.
X881 Corregidor Rededication Plaque Marker, it is located on the right Memorial Stone. Remember in the album you can zoom on all the plaques.
X882 looking north over and thru the General Wainwright and the Nurses Memorial on Corregidor, the trolley bridge is in back, about in the middle of the picture. This is a full view of the memorial and also shows both, the Philippine and US flags displayed. The right stone has the re dedication plaque; the left stone has the nurses’ plaque. The middle stone has plaques on all four sides and is dedicated to Gen. Wainwright and all his troops and all Allied personnel.
X883 the Medal of Honor Citation from President Truman to General Wainwright on the 10 Sep. 1945
X884 this plaque of the general is in front of that middle stone, in the album is a much better picture.
X885 words of Brigadier General Carlos Romulo about General Wainwright. Gen. Romulo served on Corregidor with both Gen. MacArthur and Wainwright. He held important posts in the post WWII Philippines.
X886 the plaque with a list of individuals and organizations who made the memorial possible on the back of the memorial; my hat is off to all of them!
X887 on Samat Memorial Shrine amongst many other markers is also this marker for the nurses of WWII in the Philippines. In the album you have good readable copies of all three nurses’ memorial plaques, one on Corregidor, this one on Mt. Samat and one in Limay put up by Edna Binkowski with the help of local resources.
X888 on the left side of the middle memorial stone is a plaque with a quote of the General himself.