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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2010 2:14:25 GMT 8
The thread searching for the location of the original pole that the American flag flew from during the recapture of Corregidor brought out pictures of the radio station and two towers. Would anyone else have pictures of them be it pre-war or post-war, inside or out? Thank you in advance.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Jun 16, 2010 20:33:09 GMT 8
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Post by okla on Jun 16, 2010 22:16:47 GMT 8
Hey Karl....For my part, you never post too many of your pics. As I continually tell Fots, each and every one is thoroughly appreciated, enjoyed and welcomed by this "stateside bound" Bataan/Corregidor "geek".
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Post by fots2 on Jun 16, 2010 23:07:31 GMT 8
That is a good collection of photos there Karl. I expect we will see that building again in the next month or two.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2010 11:28:23 GMT 8
Hey, Karl! Very thorough, as Fots said a nice collection of photos. I thank you! Does anyone know if the towers were still standing at the start of the war? Unless we had taken them down prior to the war I assume, standing or fallen, they fell prey to the Japanese scrap metal drive. And much like the Officers Club I'd still love to see some interior shots of the radio station when it was in operation. More exterior shots too, pre-or-post war. Bring'm on. The mid-western stateside Corregidor/Bataan geeks will be waiting.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Jun 17, 2010 13:15:08 GMT 8
I don’t remember seeing the towers in any WWII image, maybe they had become obsolete. The first flag was posted on a large wooden pole near by there, was that used as an antenna pole? The Navy had a forest of wooden poles around their Intercept Station. Yea, next visit -end of July!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2010 5:51:18 GMT 8
Would this radio station have been an "armed forces radio" type radio station, intended to entertain and inform the troops, or was it's mission passing along orders and military information? Do we know? Thanks.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 7, 2010 7:55:09 GMT 8
The radio station would have been to broadcast and receive military information - orders, reports, firing data etc. My unaided memory tells me that there was no communication cable linking Ft. Mills to any of the other Manila or Subic Bay Forts. The long antenna might also have been part of a much longer distance broadcasting and reception. This would have been for communication from places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Darwin, and probably Honolulu & Washington.
The Navy at Monkey Pt were passively intercepting Japanese signals, and doing traffic analysis as well as a little bit of codebreaking, so I don't factor them into the general military communication network. From most accounts, the Navy kept what they were doing pretty much to themselves.
Don't overlook the fact that in those days, a radio receiver was about the size of a TV set, and well beyond the affordability of mere EM's.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2010 10:46:24 GMT 8
I understand Monkey Point's mission and I knew we also had a large antenna complex over natural salt water deposits near Fort McKinley that copied coded radio transmissions out of Japan, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. This complex was blown up by American forces December 24th, 1941. Being as the building in question on Corregidor is referred to Radio Station #1, were there other radio stations? One of my other hobbies is collecting antique radios and I know there was a radio to fit almost any budget back then. Lots of radios then also offered short wave capabilities as well as AM. One of the pictures of the Ruhlen living quarters on Corregidor on the Corregidor Then & Now website shows what appears to me to be an RCA console radio. I'd be willing to bet there were several privately owned radio recievers on the Rock in 1941.
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Post by fots2 on Jul 7, 2010 14:18:10 GMT 8
Ironman, Radio Station #2 is located just meters NE of Battery Way. Its antenna field stretched in a straight line NW of the building. The 1936 map shows nine antenna masts. These antennas were almost parallel to the antenna field at Radio Station #1. Partial exterior view of Radio Station #2 Interior view of Radio Station #2. I have read that the Navy also had a radio station in one of their tunnels inside Malinta Hill.
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