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Post by EXO on Mar 6, 2011 6:26:55 GMT 8
Chad Hill posted this great map in two pieces, so I have tried to stitch it together as a single item. Sorry about the eyestrain, blokes!
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Post by EXO on Mar 6, 2011 6:13:53 GMT 8
Congratulations, life will never be the same again.
You will soon discover how quickly your new son will start collecting things, admirers for a start!
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Post by EXO on Mar 3, 2011 15:53:56 GMT 8
Information comes our way that theres a new group that is to operate the failed resort which occupies the area known to us as "92nd Garage." Anybody know anything?
Can we expect to lose any history? More History than we already have?
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Post by EXO on Mar 1, 2011 12:07:20 GMT 8
Another credit worthy addition to Philippine WWII Archaeological Scholarship, Fots!
All may be interested to know that Google Analytics places the following enquiry as eighth in their list of key word searches that end up in the enquiry going to Corregidor.org
“Who is John Moffitt?” + "Corregidor"
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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 EXO on Feb 26, 2011 15:54:10 GMT 8
Interesting observation - it does look a little like La Monja - but does it fit with the landmass hidden by the watermark on the starboard side?
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Post by EXO on Feb 25, 2011 8:50:38 GMT 8
Great collection of images you have there Friscohare! They evoke a world we shall never know the likes of again. Those whose job was to man the ramparts in 1941 would be betrayed by the attitudes of those who lived safe, fat, dumb and happy at home. In many respects, times have not changed either, because there's still a significant inability of apparently educated to understand that it's not a safe world out there. Thanks for evoking the period.
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Post by EXO on Feb 24, 2011 21:10:07 GMT 8
The commanders group around the sand table on Mindoro for a "posterity portrait." - On the left is Maj. Arlis Kline, the commanding officer of the 462d PFABn. He will be severely wounded on the jump. Next to him, immediately behind Col. Jones, is Lt. Col. "Smiling Jack" Tolson, who will be the lift commander. Tolson will jump with one of the last sticks, breaking his left ankle upon landing. Col. George Jones, commanding officer of the 503d PRCT, and now of the Rock Force, points out a feature on Corregidor. Lt. Col. John Erickson, on the right, is commanding the 3d Bn 503d PRCT. He will be the first man to jump. The others I don't know by sight. I expect one may be Lt. Col. E. M. Postlethwait, commanding the 3d Bn, 34th Infantry Regiment.
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Post by EXO on Feb 23, 2011 20:04:19 GMT 8
Philippine tribe says remains 'sold as Japan WWII dead'
Agence France-Presse
MANILA—Grave robbers have dug up the remains of Philippine tribesmen and passed them off as the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II, tribal leaders said Wednesday.
The skeletons of hundreds of Mangyan and Ifugao tribesmen have been shipped to Japan since 2008 after being unearthed by looters paid by a Japanese group, they claimed.
Aniw Lubag, a Mangyan leader, told a news conference his tribe briefly detained three people in 2008 as they stole bones from a burial cave on the central island of Mindoro.
"They said they were hired by non-Mangyans. We heard other Filipinos ordered (the digging up of bones) and then gave them to Kuentai," said Lubag, referring to a Japanese group established to find and repatriate the bodies of fallen soldiers.
Caesar Dulnuan, a head of the Ifugao tribal group, said skeletons had vanished from their northern mountain community after the Japanese group began searching for the remains of their war dead in the area.
"We don't know who received the bones. There were a lot of people and they paid them 500 pesos (11.40 dollars) per (skeleton) recovered," he said.
The looters said they were paid by others to bring bones to Kuentai, whose website says it is a "non-profit organisation" seeking to repatriate the remains of half a million Japanese soldiers killed during the occupation of the country.
Koji Nakamura, a spokesman for a group of Japanese war veterans and relatives, urged the Philippine government to investigate.
"If this is true, it is unscrupulous and profane," Nakamura told the news conference.
He said Kuentai had not checked whether the remains were those of Japanese soldiers, emboldening impoverished residents to dig up and sell Filipino bones.
"All they need is an affidavit from some Filipino people, saying 'We found these Japanese bones here and there,' and have it signed by a village official so the Japanese government has no reason to doubt them," he said.
The bones were later cremated and sent to Japanese national cemeteries for burial, making it impossible to bring them back, Nakamura added.
Nakamura said Philippine National Museum staff had taken part in Kuentai's retrieval program but told him they had no way of checking if the bones were Japanese.
Officials from the National Museum's cultural properties section told AFP that staff members who took part in the Kuentai project were unavailable for comment on Wednesday.
In Tokyo, an official at the Kuentai headquarters said that its representative in charge of media relations was not immediately available.
Japan's Kyodo news agency said Kuentai was officially tasked by the Japanese government in 2008 with collecting the remains of Japan's war dead in the Philippines.
It said around 500,000 Japanese soldiers died in the country during WWII, with the bodies of around 380,000 yet to be recovered.
In an interview with the Sankei News last October, Kuentai secretary general Usan Kurata denied allegations that his group and its local staff had been involved in the stealing of any bones or had paid money to buy remains.
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Post by EXO on Feb 21, 2011 19:20:11 GMT 8
On the 17th Feb, the daylight ops for all the 503d was characterized by a systematic reduction of what they were referring to as bunkers, pillboxes and underground installations. The stronger ones mentioned on this date were HMG pillboxes located 200 yards east of Battery Cheney, 300 yards NE of Battery Cheney, and 500 yards north of the hospital, each of which was said to have been knocked out after heavy fire fights. A map I have (redrawn based on a plastic overlay of the 17th) shows "E" Company being north of the Hospital, due west of the most northerly of the Middleside Barracks, attacking East-North-East towards Morrison Hill. Placing "E" Co where Flanagan does, is inconsistent with "E" Company’s sector of responsibility. On the 17th, it was "D" Co who were attacking Wheeler. "E" Co was Hudson Hill’s Company and I am critical of Flanagan’s blind acceptance of Hill’s Advanced Infantry Officer’s Course paper as the basis for writing his accounts. John Moffitt has a view also, though I should allow him the opportunity to express it rather than me. My view on Flanagan's treatment of Hill's paper has been published some years back at 503prct.org/admin/caution.htm and corregidor.org/BEA503/features/lostroad.htmlYes, the account does build around a statement by ‘Hoot’ Gibson, though. Hoot was from the 462nd and could be called into any sector anywhere at any time, as required. (He died Jan 2008.) But my point is that we may be thinking entirely in the wrong area, because we can’t rely on Flanagan 100%.
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