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Post by chadhill on Dec 8, 2010 2:39:37 GMT 8
Very interesting pictures, Fots. I found this photo which I think is of a tombstone that was still upright when I wandered thru the cemetery in 1986. I can't understand why I don't have a closer view of it (or of the other side) which would show the person's name, except that they might have died long before the war and I was on a battlefield expedition.
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Post by batteryboy on Dec 8, 2010 6:30:42 GMT 8
Also, nearby I found what I thought was the projectile portion of a 75mm round (methinks now it might be the shell of a 2.36 inch bazooka round, though). Great find! Looks like more of an 81mm mortar round to me but can be mistaken. Its only now that I have been reading the other threads. Fots tells me to not work that hard. He is right, I am missing a lot and doing a lot of catch up reading.
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Post by chadhill on Dec 8, 2010 19:35:11 GMT 8
Hi Batteryboy, have you checked out the "Topside Relics" thread recently, it's under Weapons and Materiel. What do you think about replies # 5 and #6 ? Thanks, Chad
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Post by The Phantom on Dec 10, 2010 6:01:25 GMT 8
My guess is the letter that is missing from the tomb stone is a D.
When I, and a friend of mine, back in 2000, along with 4 other D.O. M.'s were separated from our jobs, as District Operation Managers, (D.O.M.) for a major drug Store chain, we went to the P.I. to get over it.
We visited Paco Park/Cemetery, ( a centuries old Cemetery) in Manila and saw a grave with D.O.M. on the grave stone cover, so we stood by it for a picture representing our demise from the corporate world at that time.
I digress............
D.O.M.
Deo Optimo Maximo
Translation......
To God, the best and the greatest.
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Post by okla on Dec 10, 2010 8:02:24 GMT 8
Hey Phantom....You gotta admit that I was kinda on the right tract. It was Latin,etc. Cheers.
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Post by fots2 on Dec 10, 2010 8:32:50 GMT 8
I never heard of that before Phanton. Thanks for solving this little mystery.
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Post by chadhill on Jan 7, 2011 6:40:18 GMT 8
This is from a blurred, very small printed copy of the 1936 map that I got from a SeaBee in 1987, while they were restoring the Topside museum. Just above the road north of Camp Point it shows another cemetery ("CEMETERY"). I never looked for it and know nothing about it.
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Post by fots2 on Jan 7, 2011 15:00:11 GMT 8
Hi Chad,
I noticed that on the map too but have not checked out this area. It is an easy location to get to. I will be back to Corregidor next week and I’ll let you know the results.
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Post by chadhill on Jan 17, 2011 21:10:14 GMT 8
Fots, I was browsing through "Intercept Station C" last night and noticed that the map on page 32 shows that the only member of the CAST group to die on Corregidor was buried in the cemetery that is furthest east of Kindley Field (near the wall).
YN3 Kenneth F. Grisham, SN # 3756854, who arrived from the USS Houston on 8 July 1941, was killed in a tractor accident on 31 December 1941. Strangely, the American Battle Monuments Commission has him listed as:
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery Manila, Philippines
The map on page 32 also has the curious note "Coffins of the Unburied Dead" next to the cemetery symbol.
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Post by okla on Jan 17, 2011 22:32:01 GMT 8
Hey Chad....This is exactly the kind of stuff that will run "Geeks" over the edge, especially the "Coffins of the Unburied Dead". What the h*** can that mean? ? I suppose that Yeoman Grisham's grave site is lost to posterity since he evidently isn't interred in Manila. Kinda sad that he is somewhere out past Kindley in an unmarked grave.
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