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Post by EXO on Apr 27, 2009 14:17:30 GMT 8
Great pics!! Did you acquire?
Sorry it took a while to post this, but I had to dry the drool from my keyboard.
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Post by victor on Apr 28, 2009 2:43:58 GMT 8
Unfortunately I didn't win this one on ebay a few years ago. There's always someone with more money to throw into the bidding. All I'm left are the ebay pictures to look longingly at.
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Post by victor on May 29, 2009 19:35:25 GMT 8
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Post by Karl Welteke on Nov 20, 2015 16:21:27 GMT 8
THE FORT MILLS PLAQUE, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO IT? My friend, Glen Williford, a leader in the Coastal Defense Study group (cdsg.org) sent me the below two pictures and gave me permission to use it. He is also a well known author on the Coastal Defense History. W338 Karl, ran across this picture recently at the army's historical library at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. It’s the naming plaque for Fort Mills. Does it still exist? Have you ever seen it? Ever heard of it being scrapped or removed? Just wondering....Glen W339 this is the writing on the back of the above picture W…., found in the army's historical library at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. From Karl to Glen: I don’t know, hopefully after posting it an answer will emerge! My guess is, it was close where the Coast Guard Station is now? Thank you, Karl Glen answered: Thanks Karl. Sure, post for us on the forum and ask if anyone knows what happened to it. I doubt if anyone would have removed the "rock" even if the plate was taken as a souvenir or to be scrapped. The background makes it look like it may have been near the coast guard station, I agree. Glen In the Corregidor web pages are two more pictures W340 this picture came from the Corregidor.org webpage: The Siege of Corregidor by Louis Morton. And it has this description: The Fort Mills plaque - echoes of times past, when it was a "Gentleman's Army". This is the URL and you got to scroll down about 1/3 of the page. This picture seems to be more recent, the area looks more civilized and it is the same general area judging by the rocks in back. corregidor.org/chs_army/morton_01.htmW341 this picture came from the Corregidor.org webpage: The True Story how Col. Jones became the Warden. This must be a 1945 picture and the plaque seemed to have been moved from the rock in the other two pictures. This is the URL: corregidor.org/503_abbott/control/warden_text.htmEXO what is the history of those two images in your web pages? Note: This thread has some nice old pictures and more from the Japanese occupation.
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Post by Registrar on Nov 20, 2015 18:01:48 GMT 8
Karl, These images were among the earliest I'd acquired for the website, and I see from the dates of the pages that it was at least as far back as 1999. One came from the Patrick Clancey's Hyperwar project of the Official History (by his kind permission. He has since passed) and the other of Col. Jones is SWPA-Sig C-45-13294 taken 6 March 1945 by T/5 Kingsley Hall. The latter also turns up as SC271164, courtesy of David Metherell. We do have a lead on where the the plaque may be today, courtesy of Charles E. Kirkpatrick, who is the V Corps Historian. He says that he saw it at the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Museum at Ft. Bliss, TX in 1979, when he was temporarily working for the curator, Mr. Sam Hoyle, while awaiting reassignment for a teaching tour at West Point. He noted that Sam and he had retrieved it from a pile of material the previous museum curator had intended simply to throw away. (Phew! That was close!!) He recalled that there had been some talk about transferring it to the Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe. So, I don't know exactly where it is at present, perhaps some of our Stateside fellows might have seen it. I should like to think that it would be best for all if there could be a large rock set up on Corregidor a little ways from one of the remaining cast-iron telephone poles on bottomside (assuming that some scrapper hasn't been busy), and the plaque affixed permanently upon it. Paul
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Post by armyjunk on Dec 4, 2015 10:23:24 GMT 8
I should have put my post here, the Fort Mills plaque is at the Air Defense Museum, Fort Sill..................................
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Post by rickthelibrarian on Jan 26, 2016 21:33:44 GMT 8
Excellent pictures, gentlemen! I do wish I had the time, money and stamina to help you explore further. The day and a half I spent on Corregidor in 2014 maybe we wish I had about a week (or more!) to do more!
I especially like the picture of the 10' gun from Battery Grubbs.
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