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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 10:50:30 GMT 8
Don't know what they are making. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 10:51:06 GMT 8
2nd part of picture Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 10:52:10 GMT 8
Barracks Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 10:53:42 GMT 8
Balloon hangar Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 10:54:35 GMT 8
Looks like a barracks Attachments:
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Post by EXO on Feb 28, 2011 14:14:38 GMT 8
They are making the under-water seaplane ramp - build a wall, pump the water out, lay the concrete. Great pics. When I have time I will see if I can stick the two pics together in a single pan.
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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 20:31:49 GMT 8
16 Feb 1921 Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Feb 28, 2011 20:33:25 GMT 8
Looks like barracks area Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2011 9:11:48 GMT 8
This last one looks like the base Hospital. Great Pix, by the way. Thanks.
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Post by The Phantom on Mar 23, 2011 6:48:45 GMT 8
Those of us lucky enough to visit Corregidor appreciate these vintage shots.
This trip Fots and I found an interesting stretch of road that starts out at the north western end of the present, (falling in the ocean), conference center on the western edge of 92nd Garage.
This stretch of road was the probable route of the prisoners out of 92nd Garage in 1942, when they were being placed on ships for the trip to Manila, at South Dock, after the surrender was official.
I have read several accounts as to this most direct route to the South shore road and then to the dock area. I had never taken the time to go in far enough to look for the road before. Its not obvious. Lots of those spiny, rip you up thorns here also.
We went down a steep slippery slope, loose and deep with gray lahar, (pumice, dropped form volcanic eruptions), from who knows which ancient eruption of a local volcano. The road runs below, and west of the concrete trenches that were a last defensive position east of Malinta Tunnel. It is indeed there still and runs a similar route in some locations, as the road shone in the first picture. The road pictured above in a rough road missing some junctions including the one coming out of 92nd and going west to meet the road above.
The present road is not hard to identify once on it, no longer used for anything, it meets the main road to East Malinta Tunnel near the fallen concrete tank barricades,( one barricade still in place by the main road above, one down on this old road now).
The old road is about 10 ft below the new concrete road built in the Marcos times. I'm assuming the new concrete road was built higher with debris from all the previous bombing and shelling which caused the hillsides to slide down. But didn't reduce the overall height of Malinta, huh......
Along the newer concrete road, on the north side of the road, a couple hundred yards from Malinta east entrance, we thought we had discovered a small cave, but when fots got down on hands and knees with his flashlight, and shined it inside, it turned out to be a buried 50 gallon drum that had finally rusted through on the top. That's some buried debris right, what else is under there?
No, no gold inside......
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