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Post by fots2 on Jun 11, 2009 16:37:38 GMT 8
Phantom,
Who's shooting SNAKES out of trees? Ron’s security guys shot them
How big? didn’t ask
How many? 2 that I know of (hopefully many more by the time we return)
Where are those bast.....? both times in the James Ravine area far from any day tourists
The first time was early morning before the ferry arrived. The second time was a different day but no ferry was due to arrive anyway. I was the only visitor on Corregidor then.
Twice this year I have had days in which I was the only visitor on Corregidor. Even the souvenir shops and museum were closed. That was one quiet island those days.
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Post by fots2 on Jun 12, 2009 14:46:44 GMT 8
It seems no one has any new info on the Navy Tunnels so I will add a few photos of the second remaining tunnel to complete the topic. This one is approximately eight metres north of the one described above. If we are correct, this one was known as Roger. It is collapsed a short ways inside the entrance so not much to see. The outer entrance is almost sealed but you can still slide in. looking back out the entrance standing on rock at the start of the totally collapsed tunnel looking back towards the entrance Not much (or none) of the original tunnel floor is visible. It would be interesting to know if there are any embedded rails there. An item for my ‘to do’ list.
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Post by okla on Jun 12, 2009 22:05:57 GMT 8
hey fots....you have gotta be an explorer of the first order. would it be to much to say that you are truly an expert on most, if not all, of the "back roads" and out of the way places on corregidor???
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Post by fots2 on Jun 12, 2009 22:28:16 GMT 8
No, honestly no expert here. A few others, most notably Karl, have explored places I have not even seen yet. I just post more photos here or on the pbase site.
One thing that continues to amaze me is the sheer quantity of interesting locations on this island. If you had asked me years ago, I would have told you that I would have ‘seen it all’ long before now. Board members such as yourself keep my ‘to do’ list still a full page long.
Thanks for your input okla.
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Post by okla on Jun 14, 2009 0:30:15 GMT 8
hey fots...well, please keep posting the photos and i will keep lookin', all the way to the divorce court. wife isnt too "into" corregidor/bataan.
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Post by fots2 on Jun 14, 2009 11:11:17 GMT 8
Convince her that you require just one trip to Corregidor to treat your addiction.
She will love the T-shirt you give her when you return home. ;D
(P.S. I volunteer to show you around if you ever return to this part of the world).
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Post by okla on Jun 15, 2009 0:03:53 GMT 8
hey fots...i appreciate your kind offer of being my personal guide, but i am afraid that i might not come back to the states. when i missed out on the clark field assignment, back in 1953, i fear that was my only "shot" at getting a first hand look at the PI/corregidor/bataan,etc. i think i mentioned on this board or the scout website that one of my oldest and best friends from highschool served 36 months at subic with the navy in the 1950s. he never, not one time, visited corregidor/bataan, but he never missed a trip to the "dives" in olongapo and manila. no sense of history at all. had i gotten the clark AFB hitch i believe i could work in a few trips to those places along with the jaunts to the dens of iniquity. takes all kinds i guess. i see on the phil scout website where a corregidor veteran's son and wife have retired to the rock. his father (you probably already know all this) was a gunner at battery way. maybe fired the last shot from the big guns. he was one of wild bill masello's guys on that final mortar that froze up as i understand it. this is one of the neatest stories i have heard. i would do it in a new york minute, but i know beforehand that wife would have me commited at the very mention. she better not press her luck, though. as they say in oklahoma, "thanks again for the invite".
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Post by fots2 on Jul 8, 2009 16:41:16 GMT 8
Last week’s trip to Corregidor resulted in some new information about the Navy Tunnels worthy of a “Part 2”. A few surprises for me. It should be ready to post in the next day or so. fots2 (time to get okla away from the house chores for awhile)
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Post by okla on Jul 8, 2009 22:23:54 GMT 8
hey fots....i await the new material with nervous anticipation.
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Post by chadhill on Jul 21, 2012 12:14:26 GMT 8
This is a 1985 photo I took on Guam of a Mark 14 torpedo. They were over 20 feet long and weighed nearly 3300 pounds. According to 16th Naval District reports, at the outbreak of war nearly 200 such torpedoes were on hand at Corregidor and aboard the USS Canopus. About 230 Mark 14s were destroyed when the Cavite Navy Yard was bombed on 10 December, leaving about 150 which were then brought over to Corregidor. This photo of torpedoes captured after the fall of Corregidor is from Philippine Expededitionary Force, 1943: In 1986 I found several of what seemed to be rail spikes, well south of the quartermaster tunnels but somewhere north of the south entrance (see tunnel map above in Reply #14). They seemed to be small by USA railroad standards, but we are be talking about trolley tracks and cars here: Even though I came across several spikes in the area, I do not remember seeing any rails, although they may have been there. Some of the tunnel floor was covered with debris, and of course it was very dark. I would think some sort of trolley car would be used to move a 20 foot, 3300 pound torpedo. One source (Morris) states that torpedoes were stored in Queen tunnel, but I can't say I was in Queen. My impression is that I was still in the main north-south tunnel. Because of its straightness, that tunnel would also seem to be the easiest one to move and store torpedoes in. Possible a silly question, but do rails imbedded in concrete still require spikes? And would spikes for concrete usage have been shaped similarly? Here is an '86 photo from the west entrance of the main Malinta tunnel showing two sets of imbedded tracks, minus the rails:
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