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Post by tmayer on Mar 6, 2019 7:24:09 GMT 8
For the experts.
What was the status of Corregidor's infrastructure and facilities after the surrender in 1942 and prior to the bombings in early 1945.
Was everything still pretty much still intact and functional during Japanese occupation (prior to the bombings to soften the island up before the recapture)?
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Post by EXO on Mar 6, 2019 18:22:45 GMT 8
Rather than go through a "this was, this wasn't" listing, the better way of thinking about the interim period was along the lines of recognizing that the Japanese thought (and anticipated) that the Philippines was going to belong to them for a thousand years, and that having already won the war, they didn't need to build defences on Corregidor. They didn't really contemplate taking a serious defensive stance until Leyte was retaken. By then, of course, it was too late to do anything seriously.
About the only fresh building they did build was the munition storehouse on the stockade level.
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Post by tmayer on Mar 7, 2019 23:20:00 GMT 8
I was thinking more in the lines of "what was still usable", as in was everything still working and pretty much intact (and not destroyed like the pictures show in 1945.
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