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Post by okla on Sept 9, 2010 21:58:21 GMT 8
Hey Jed....I second fots thoughts. Always room for more photos of and about "the Rock". Whatever you have, I would appreciate viewing. I have felt a bit guilty for quite some time about not really having anything substantial to contribute to this forum. Only kibitzing, asking questions and passing on some tidbits I have heard from Corregidor/Bataan veterans I have known and served with over the years. Therefore, I do value concrete stuff that folks post on this board. Cheers.
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Post by chadhill on Sept 11, 2010 6:36:24 GMT 8
Here's an aerial view from 1987. After looking at fots2 fine photos, I can say that they have really cleaned up the inside of the barracks since the 1980s. Back then, there was all kinds of wreckage and rubbish scattered on the floors.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2010 6:49:36 GMT 8
Looking back at the island, on the way to battery point:
"The trees are quiet. They no not move... But it has many histories; The island has a lot of history." -Miguel Nargatan
Mr. Nargatan spent many years on Corregidor and most certainly has a history in his head from the many conversations of defenders & survivors. When my father's legs and lungs no longer let him escort me around the island, it was Mike who took me into the caves, and to the shore to collect the "blood stones" along the sea.
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Post by chadhill on Sept 11, 2010 6:50:31 GMT 8
I'll see if I can find some photos that show the debris that was still inside the barracks during the 1980s. If you look at the stairs in this 1986 shot, you can get an idea what it was like...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2010 6:55:34 GMT 8
Okla,
Just saw your message. I realized thinking while driving back and forth to work the last couple days that what makes this site so special to me is finding Corregidor is alive in the people who have been there since me, and reading the comments and seeing the pictures provides the evidence. So don't minimize whatever contributions you have made-I enjoy reading it all!
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Post by okla on Sept 11, 2010 7:57:01 GMT 8
Hey Jed...Thanks for the kind words. Since I can't/don't contribute anything substantial, i.e. photos,etc I do hope that, maybe, my questions or comments might trigger "real" contributions from the good folks that live in the PI or make regular trips to that fine country. Chad...Your 1980's pix, in contrast to Fots' Fine Foto Tour photos, do indeed depict the "clean up" that has taken place in and around the "Mile Long Barracks". The photographs taken by Fots make it appear that one could literally eat off the floor, lol. Seriously, there obviously has been a major effort to "police the area". Cheers.
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Post by fots2 on Jan 6, 2013 10:15:20 GMT 8
Recently some people have been having offline discussions and one of them involves the swimming pool in the Mile Long Barracks. Would anyone have any information about this pool as to why it is there and what it was used for? Here are two photos of the swimming pool. Thank-you.
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Post by okla on Jan 6, 2013 22:38:57 GMT 8
Hey Fots....Now this is exactly the kind of stuff that I could have "gleaned" from "Mac", my childhood neighbor. Dammit, I really missed the boat on a golden opportunity to mine valuable info that would be of use today on this Forum. Just because he didn't spend his time on "The Rock" decimating the Emperor's Legions, my very immature mind deemed his experiences not worthy of more investigation. I last visited with him in 1982. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife, Velma, both died within hours of each other. He found her dead, sitting in her easy chair, one morning and he was deceased, probably from grief, before sundown. They had no children. Sad ending, methinks.
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Post by The Phantom on Jan 12, 2013 8:06:02 GMT 8
I seem to remember reading somewhere they trained divers in the pool in Topside barracks.
Servicemen needed to service the mine fields, dock areas, piers, ship repairs, test underwater equipment, etc.
It could have also been used for exercise, filled with salt water I'd assume, available 24/7, indoors.
Both Navy and Army divers? Doubt that at that time...........
The pool is not very long or wide, not Olympic size, but looks to be at least 12 ft. deep at deep end.
Looks to part of original building plans, pretty swanky for an Army base at the time.
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Post by fots2 on Jan 13, 2013 15:38:42 GMT 8
Thanks for the reply Phantom,
I have heard the "diver training" story and just wanted to see if anyone knew of anything else. That makes sense though as the pool is far too small for general use of all the soldiers living in those barracks.
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