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Post by mapmaster on Jun 29, 2009 20:15:40 GMT 8
Hi Learn something new everyday. Two hours going through the 5 foot contours, trying to find photos of buildings, matching angles and toying with the idea that the original photo negative may have been reversed, only to find out that there was a way of cheating. After fots2 post, it then took me an hour to find out how, but did also eventually find a nice photo of a bulldozer and more shots of the rubble on the slopes of Malinta Hill. Bulldozer and what sort of a machine is behind it? Better shot of the rubble. See corregidor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=cartography&action=display&thread=472I say no more. Regards mapmaster
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Post by buster on Jun 29, 2009 21:17:02 GMT 8
Mapmaster, It wasn't cheating to go looking for the answer. It was treasure hunting. Batteryboy has the best theory of what it was - the blowing up of the entrance to Wheeler Tunnel where it opened out to Cheney Road - most likely by the Engineers. There's an awful lot of soil in the air. OTHERS FROM THE SAME SERIES for those folks who never go browsing around the site.
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Post by mapmaster on Jun 29, 2009 21:40:32 GMT 8
Hi Buster
mapmaster did it the hard way, which is called trial and error. The other way is called research, which is why this website and bulletin board are so important.
The 1945 blast is so big it has shaken the ground and raised dust for 100 metres in all directions.
The bulldozer, or should I say, Tractor, Crawler in the photos taken at San Jose appears to be a Caterpillar D7 equipped with a LeTourneau blade. The machine behind appears to be a scraper.
Regards
mapmaster
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Post by fots2 on Jun 29, 2009 22:28:46 GMT 8
Very good bunch of photos posted here. Thanks.
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Post by buster on Jun 30, 2009 10:06:30 GMT 8
I have a friend who has books of photos like this hanging around like a teenage boy would have collections of Playboy. Here you are, Gary!
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Post by buster on Jun 30, 2009 10:41:00 GMT 8
Engineer's Ravine is a testimony to Eco Tourism and careful driving. Actually, I can really see how people can fall in love with these old machines. With a bit of TLC, and lashings of sponsorship, this minor Corregidor treasure can be resurrected. Mapmaster, you know your CATs. What model and blade? If CFI were smarter, they'd invite a sponsor to restore this CAT. In the US, we'd start a not-for-profit corporation to provide restored historic vehicles for use in a National Park. What's the Filipino version of a Not-For-Profit Corporation? Well, I won't answer that one. And gee, I wonder if that scrap metal is still there?
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Post by mapmaster on Jun 30, 2009 19:56:46 GMT 8
Hi Buster Caterpillar D4 7U from the 1950s (at least that's what I think it is) in Engineer's Ravine is a bit past it. I had a close look in January. Caterpillar Tractor, Crawler, Diesel, Model D7 images below are from TB 5-9720-11, Tractors and Tractor Attachments, 10 July 1944, both without blade and with straight blade. Regards mapmaster
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Post by The Phantom on Jul 1, 2009 2:49:29 GMT 8
John Wayne's Cat from the fighting See bees?
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Post by mapmaster on Jul 1, 2009 19:23:45 GMT 8
The Fighting Seabees
Hi Phantom
Had to sit through this film to answer your question - I hadn't seen it before. There were a lot of different manufacturer's earthmoving and construction machines in this movie. Yes, there is at least one Cat D7, at least one International dozer and a host of Allis Chalmers dozers. The latter was the machine make that John Wayne performed his last heroic deed in the movie.
Interestingly, the Japanese Forces in the movie had tanks. Two of these were Australian Local Pattern (Production) Machine Gun Carriers with heaps of sheet metal added. If I am correct, what were these carriers doing in California for the film?
Regards
mapmaster
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Post by The Phantom on Jul 2, 2009 5:02:56 GMT 8
That's a good question about the Japanese tanks that were actually Australian Machine gun carriers. Maybe sent to California for training purposes and they were pressed into duty for the movie? Sent back on some of the empty Liberty ships returning from Austrailia? The war time movie industry could probably get little in actual material for filming. Thanks for watching that movie to get the answer. Not a great plot etc. but got the point across. War time movies can tell you a lot about how the movie industry was used to promote the war effort and get folks on board for the long haul. I don't think the making and releasing of Sargent York just before our entering the war was a coincidence.
How did I get this far off topic? Just wondering...........
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