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Post by chadhill on Aug 15, 2010 23:19:53 GMT 8
Longoskawayan Point. Mount Pucot is on the left.  (repost of photo; larger format) |
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Post by chadhill on Aug 15, 2010 23:38:32 GMT 8
Mount Pucot, Lapiay Point.  (repost of photo; larger format) |
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Post by chadhill on Aug 15, 2010 23:40:10 GMT 8
Mount Pucot and Longoskawayan Point.  (repost of photo, larger format) |
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Post by chadhill on Aug 15, 2010 23:42:54 GMT 8
Mount Pucot, Longoskawayan Point.  (repost of photo, larger format) |
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Post by chadhill on Aug 15, 2010 23:55:41 GMT 8
Quinauan Point from the S-SW.  (repost of photo, larger format) |
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Post by okla on Aug 16, 2010 0:06:16 GMT 8
Hey Chad....Good stuff. Keep it coming.
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Post by chadhill on Aug 16, 2010 0:18:55 GMT 8
Thanks, okla. Glad to know you enjoy the photos. I was wondering if they might be too old to post here, that nobody would bother looking at them. Not digital quality, either. Maybe when time permits I'll post some of my Topside and Middleside pics for comparison with today's...
I wish I could figure out how to post the pics bigger, though, so it would not be necessary to use the "click to enlarge" at the bottom of the photo.
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Post by victor on Sept 16, 2010 11:17:27 GMT 8
Thanks for these! It looks like they burned to clear the vegetation in your Longoskawayan shots. I wonder if some ordnance exploded while the grass burned.
A long time local from the Abucay Hacienda area told me that back in the 60's they had to run away whenever they burned grass to clear vegetation because some ordnance would eventually explode or pop.
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Post by chadhill on Feb 27, 2011 1:57:33 GMT 8
Karl, I thought you might find this useful in your Bataan travels if you don't already have it. The note at the bottom left of the chart says "IMPORTANT: This map not to be carried forward of the Main Line of Resistance". The bottom line of the legend, not completely visible (sorry), says "Latest Revision April 1942". From the collection of the late Bataan veteran, Captain Paul Ashton, M.D. |
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Post by chadhill on Apr 25, 2011 9:24:42 GMT 8
In February 2005 John D. Lukacs, while laying the groundwork for his extremely well researched and written book "Escape from Davao" (published by Simon and Schuster, 2010), took a pumpboat tour up the southwest coast of Bataan to Quinauan Point. The following year he graciously e-mailed me a number of photos from that journey.  The right side of this photo is the western coast of Longoskawayan Point, with Mount Pucot in the left background. A close examination of the cliffs on the right reveals a large number of pockmarked holes. These holes may well have been caused by the 3 inch guns of Lieutenant Commander John Morrill's minesweeper USS Quail, and Lieutenant Commander Henry Goodall's modified 40 foot motor lauch, nicknamed the "Mickey Mouse Battleship", with its 37mm gun (Goodall was XO of the USS Canopus). A number of Japanese troops had taken refuge in caves on the western cliffs of Longoskawayan Point, and the boats were brought in to help finish them off at the end of January 1942. See "Bataan: Our Last Ditch" (p. 265-67) and "Ghosts of Canopus" (p. 91-95). |
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