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Post by batteryboy on Apr 26, 2011 9:12:44 GMT 8
From the Fitch Collection via Justin Taylan of Pacific Wrecks: Anybody know where this room is? A concrete tablet sign Japanese 120mm Type 10 DP Gun EXO, remember the truck cave that Verne White was talking about? Intersting camo on the truck? Inspecting Wheeler Cheney from a far.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Apr 26, 2011 11:12:54 GMT 8
Yea, battery boy, I remember reading the story and I even looked for it at Crockett Ravine. Looks like this truck is sitting at north side, Bottomside or at Battery Pt. It looks like Bataan across the North Channel.
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Post by batteryboy on Apr 26, 2011 14:14:07 GMT 8
Yup Karl. , good point on the location of the truck. You seldom get to see remains of vehicles at the Rock after the war.
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Post by okla on Apr 27, 2011 1:51:47 GMT 8
Hey Battery....Interesting pics. It seems that the brush and under growth is returning. Were they taken late 1945 or early 1946? Would be interested to know if that huge stone block with "Corregidor" chiseled thereon, is still in place. If relocated, where? Lastly, the "Day Room', has gotta be adjacent to what was once a Battery Orderly Room. Maybe Topside or Middleside Barracks, I would think. I never, in my short Military stint, saw a Day Room that wasn't within spitting distance of the Orderly Room and that damned "Duty Sergeant". The Day Room was the first place he went when he needed a quick couple of guys for some dirty job that suddenly needed to be done. Cheers.
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Post by batteryboy on Apr 27, 2011 10:34:58 GMT 8
Hey Okla, thanks for your reply and for explaining the "Day Room". Only in the military would you have terms like that. In Battery Grubbs, there is one there called the "Paint Room" That is where they used to store paint for the battery wherein it could have been used to store something more useful to hurl against the enemy.
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Post by fots2 on Apr 27, 2011 15:55:19 GMT 8
Hi batteryboy,
I have not seen the "Day Room" sign. The words appear to be framed (not stenciled) so perhaps it has 'disappeared' in recent years. When I first saw the photo, Middleside Barracks came to mind but really I can't say exactly.
If it ever shows up in my travels I will be sure to let you know.
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Post by okla on Apr 28, 2011 0:37:43 GMT 8
Hey Battery...Maybe I should have explained more about "Day Rooms". That's where the GIs, loafed/relaxed when off duty and not out carousing in town, NCO club, EM Beer Hall,etc. There was always a ping pong table. Better outfitted Day Rooms would also have a pool table or two. They were nice places to hang out if you were short of money, but woe be to any unfortunates found there if the damnable Duty Sergeant needed "slaves" for some unpleasant task. "Been there, done that". I will confess that I still look back on those days fondly, for the most part, though. Cheers. Postscript...Upon closer inspection I see that the "Corregidor Stone" seems to made of cement and the name isn't chiseled or carved, but molded. No big deal, but I am interested in knowing if it still is in existence. A massive chunk of concrete such as that should still be sitting somewhere on the "Rock". Fots, are you listening?
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Post by The Phantom on Apr 28, 2011 6:01:43 GMT 8
I enjoyed the photos Batteryboy. Am trying to place the Corregidor concrete sign based on the building/complex in the background.
A sign that large and sturdy proclaiming "CORREGIDOR" I would think would be on Bottomside welcoming in those coming in by ship for the first time. Could the building in the background be the Engineering complex in Engineers ravine? I also thought it might be a Gun Battery or the Q.M.C. Garage above Battery Way.
The DAY ROOM, could that have been in the YMCA Building on Middleside, or Middleside Barracks? It appears there is a hillside behind the building and there is one immediately behind the YMCA on Middleside and Middleside Barracks or is it just a building full of debris?
I have not seen the day room sign or the concrete edifice with the Corregidor name on it either. I fear the Corregidor sign had re-bar inside........ or was considered in the way and pushed into some ravine as fill for the current road system, or dumped into the bay to build a dock or breakwater.
Love the truck, maybe on the road in front of the hospital, also on Middleside?
Fun speculating.
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Post by chadhill on Apr 28, 2011 10:47:19 GMT 8
Nice photos, Batteryboy. Speaking of vehicles on Corregidor-- though not in color, check out the license plate on this one...
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Post by batteryboy on Apr 28, 2011 14:44:06 GMT 8
Hi Chad,
They said that this was either Mac's, later inherited by Wainwright and damaged during the early campaign.
Cheers, B-Boy
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