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Post by fots2 on May 2, 2010 0:33:24 GMT 8
Victor, your trip home in July sounds just as interesting as a trip to Corregidor. I’ll wait for your report and photos.
Have a great vacation. Corregidor will be there whenever you are ready.
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Post by fots2 on Mar 17, 2012 0:28:18 GMT 8
Hey Phantom, Here is a new tidbit of information for you. Thanks to the ‘diggers’ in the C1 tunnel, two years ago you noticed that there actually was a concrete floor under the rubble to confirm what Col. Bunker had written. Our shovel equipped buddies have been diligent in uncovering even more tunnel floor, this time at the far end of the long southern lateral towards the collapsed entrance. Have a look at this section of concrete floor, they even found a drain. I wonder what else is hidden down there. I guess our buddies do too…
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Post by The Phantom on Mar 21, 2012 5:13:09 GMT 8
Someone is digging in that HEAT?
Good Lord!
As you remember Bunker talked about putting drains throughout his tunnel complex .........all the way to the back of the lateral huh? What were his drain pipes made of?
He had some pull on that island didn't he?
All this war time construction going on while intense shelling and bombing were going on constantly overhead?
The shower should be there at the west entrance........ or exit? He mentions using it at one time in his narrative.
I would think breathing in C1 Tunnel could be difficult if either entrance were closed off.
Once again, remember, that Philippine vulcanologists still list Corregidor as an active volcano..........
Intense heat inside C1 tunnel puts it on a list of several on the island that are hot spots.
Bad air also exists in some tunnels and caves on Corregidor.
Wonder how well and how long, those candles pictured inside C1 (used by the diggers), burned?
I guess the nocturnal diggers think the collapsed tunnel does go somewhere interesting Fots...........
Even though they may not find anything, the digging is an excellent weight loss program.
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Post by fots2 on Mar 22, 2012 0:23:34 GMT 8
Phantom,
I do not see any exposed pieces of pipe so I cannot answer your question. Inside the western entrance has not been dug up yet so the shower drain is probably there somewhere.
C1 is certainly one of the hotter tunnels. Imagine already being in a tropical climate then going up into the southern lateral where my glasses often fog up due to the heat and humidity.
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Post by oozlefinch on Apr 6, 2012 13:40:23 GMT 8
Gentlemen,
I'm new to this group, but have been interested in Corregidor for many years. My first trip there was in '87 and again in '89, at which time I thought I had found the C-1 tunnel. It's been a long time, but I thought the west entrance of the tunnel I found was SE of the C1/G2 station. Was that another tunnel I found, or was I just delirious from the heat. At that time I was alone (and no one knew where I was so my adventurism was tempered) and the nice trails you have today were absent 25 years ago, but I thought I was south from the Site A Magazine & when I came out of the west entrance over the concrete I was on the east-side of a ravine whose west side I had to climb up to get up to where the C1/G2 level was. It's been so long I'm not even sure which entrance I went in. Getting old is for the birds. Any help would be appreciated.
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Post by fots2 on Apr 7, 2012 23:44:43 GMT 8
Welcome to the forums.
To be SE of the C1/G2 station, you would be standing above a steep cliff and only a very short distance from the station. (Note the second map). You can almost spit from the station to the cliff face. I have been below C1/G2 several times on this narrow strip on land and am not aware of any other tunnels.
If you were south of the Site A Magazine, exited the tunnel over the concrete and appeared on the east side of a ravine then you definitely were at the C1 tunnel west entrance.
You are basically right however the details are a bit fuzzy. That is not bad at all considering you were in the area only once in 1989 which is almost a quarter century ago. Today I use a GPS which shows me a picture of where I am in relation to what is around me. It gives people the impression that I know what I am going in the middle of nowhere. There goes that secret!
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Post by chadhill on Apr 8, 2012 9:04:12 GMT 8
Gentlemen, I'm new to this group, but have been interested in Corregidor for many years. My first trip there was in '87 and again in '89... Oozlefinch, welcome to the forum! You and I made our Corregidor trips about the same time (six trips during '85-'87 for me). I would be interested in seeing any photos you would like to post. By chance do you remember a four-barreled AA gun laying near the bottom of Malinta Hill (or anywhere else, for that matter)? It may have had one of the barrels removed. Fots and I have been wondering for some time about whatever became of the "pom-pom" gun that was mounted atop Malinta Hill during the 1942 battle. On one of my trips I video-taped a vet who said the gun was at the bottom of the Hill. I vaguely remember it too, but we could have been confused about a twin 25mm gun that Fots recently photoed (see the "Malinta Hill" thread in the Trip section). Thanks, Chad
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Post by oozlefinch on Apr 8, 2012 13:38:38 GMT 8
I don't recall seeing the Navy quad 1.1 gun at any point in time. I would think that anything of that size would have probably been taken off the island for scrap after the surrender. I did, however, see a 3" gun on the east side of Malinta Hill in '87. I tried to find it again in '89 and '06, but was unsuccessful. I have come to the conclusion that I was looking in the wrong area. In '87 we climbed up the west side of the hill, so I had trouble retracing my steps. It seems at that time not many, if any, knew about the road up the east side that I found in '89.
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Post by chadhill on Apr 8, 2012 22:16:45 GMT 8
In the '80s I didn't know about a road up the east side of the hill either, oozlefinch, so I climbed it, too. Was very challenging in places-I nearly fell off once. Fots, another great job! Bunker's diary frequently mentions indulging in evening scotches. Did you come across any old discarded bottles of Johnny Walker in that rubble?
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Post by okla on Apr 8, 2012 22:54:04 GMT 8
Hey Chad....I have the distinct impression that the good Colonel didn't miss too many meals/chow calls/etc nor the opportunity for a wee snort. No knock on the man, but methinks he was heavy into the RHIP thing that surpassed others of the same rank. Just my humble. It was obvious that he viewed the Navy with a high degree of distaste. Wonder if he would stoop to drink a bit of USN booze? Cheers
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