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Post by EXO on Sept 22, 2017 7:07:03 GMT 8
"I HATE eBay sometimes!" Rant:
I can’t believe some folk – several years ago, to I put together a "cat patch" graphic and took it down to the local professional printing shop in George St., Brisbane so I could do a plaque for my wall, and sell off the others to pay for the hosting costs of my website. They said they couldn't fit two to a sheet, but could fit a number of them on each sheet so I said "That’s great!" and had them print a number of sheets. Cost me about two or three bucks a sheet. I sold off a few sheets, and when they were all gone, I forgot about it. I now see identical stuff, I am convinced someone reproduced exactly what I did, and they sell them for $35. Up yours fletcherwilliams.com !
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Post by EXO on Sept 9, 2017 8:54:33 GMT 8
Every issue, Lew "Smitty" Smith features an article from our 503d Heritage Bn. website. This issue, the seventy-fifth, it's Don Abbott's writings about "The Navy Intercept Tunnel at Monkey Point (Station "C")." This month I have started using a URL shortening web service, to make it easier to visit the Newsletter's index page: tinyurl.com/503Vietnam75 so give it a try.
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Post by EXO on Aug 11, 2017 11:59:50 GMT 8
***Attention Members***Dropbox has discontinued their "Public Folder" feature.This means that some of images embedded here may no longer display, becoming broken links*. The talents of anyone wishing to help out, and capable of converting Threads into Web Pages using Microsoft Font Page, or Communication Web are sought.
All of the files in your Public folder will remain safe, but public links to those files will stop working. If someone visits a link to a file in your Public folder, they'll see an error page. To see a list of your public links, visit your Public folder—any file in this folder will have previously had a public link associated with it. Dropbox can't convert existing public links into Dropbox shared links.
If you'd like to re-share any of the files in your Public folder, please use a shared folder or shared link.
Discussions are continuing relative to a proposed "30 year" internal hosting arrangement for hosting significant image collections. The benefit to accrue will be the establishment of a permanent link to hosted images and files. A pilot scheme is being tested by one of our senior moderators.
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*Fortunately, not many have been using this means to host images.
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Post by EXO on Aug 3, 2017 18:10:29 GMT 8
3 August 2017
gabithompson730@gmail.com is rejected and banned as his IP 37.157.217.193 has three hits on StopForumSpam as a spammer from Armenia.
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Post by EXO on Jul 22, 2017 10:03:39 GMT 8
Gary Juanico has been in contact with me today. He came across our site in 2003, and first visited Negros back in 2000, including Mt Mandalagan and Hills 4055 & 3155. He's grandson of USAAFFE M/Sgt Felipe S. Penaranda, who was MIA on Panay in 1943. He's since moved to Negros and tells me that this is the view from out of his window. He's interested in relics, and following the history of the fighting on Negros. Za316. Negros Island Hills View from a window from the area around Silay on Negros Island, Philippines.. Za317. Hill 3155 on Negros Island Hill 3155 is a hill designation from US WWII maps in feet about the fighting on Negros Island, Philippines. This URL has tons of information about the airborne unit that fought here: corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/admin/contents.htmlZa318. Hill 4055 on Negros Island. Hill 4055 is a hill designation from US WWII maps in feet about the fighting on Negros Island, Philippines. This URL has tons of information about the airborne unit that fought here: corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/admin/contents.htmlZa3019. Hill 3155 on Negros Island This is another view of Hill 3155, it is a hill designation from US WWII maps in feet about the fighting on Negros Island, Philippines. This URL has tons of information about the airborne unit that fought here: corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/admin/contents.htmlZa320. A bayonet found by Gary on Negros Island, Philippines. One of Gary's "finds". Note from XO: What might be of topical interest, given the screwing over of all of us by Photobucket, is that the images on this post were sent to me via the Facebook Messenger system, and I have posted them as a test to see whether Facebook images could be linked to display here. How's I do it? I right mouse-clicked on the image, opened the "Open link in new tab", copied the link address, and then pasted it into the forum using the "Picture" button. Seems to work! - XO – 2017-10-17 Note from Karl: XO posted these pictures from Facebook but it seems after a certain time span these Facebook hosted pictures disappear also. So they were reposted from friendlier server today
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Post by EXO on Jul 22, 2017 9:41:00 GMT 8
22 July 2017
Welcome "stringbean" , who is posting out of Tokyo, and writes us: "Hi. I was introduced to this site by fots2 following an extensive post I made on a Philippines message board regarding Corregidor. Or perhaps I should say I "thought" it was a rather extensive post instead fots2 started schooling me. Ha. Would love to be a member here, and hope to be able to contribute something as well. Much thanks! Best regards, Curtis"
Welcome also to "NelsonH" , whose IP indicates Washington D.C., writes us : "Hello! I am much interested in learning about Corregidor island. My grandfather was a US army Philippine Scout assigned to the coast artillery. My father was born at Fort Mills in 1939.In fact my father's side of the family lived in the island before the war broke out as I recall my grandmother tell stories about "peacetime" then.
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Post by EXO on Jul 18, 2017 18:26:41 GMT 8
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Post by EXO on Jul 18, 2017 13:51:12 GMT 8
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Post by EXO on Jul 4, 2017 6:08:47 GMT 8
As of June 30, 2017, Photobucket requires a $99 annual subscription to allow external linking to hosted images and a $399 annual subscription to allow the embedding of images on third-party websites, such as personal blogs and forums. This policy change, enacted with no advance warning, has been highly controversial.
Refer to : Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet Photobucket users, and those who relied on it to provide free, educational and historic materials (without pestering advertisements) or recommended it to their users, were given no warning of the change. The bastards!
I have just received the following message from FOTS2 (John Moffitt), who is one of our most outstanding members, and whose contributions to this forum, and to the study of Corregidor's History and Geography have been exceptional. John's images, along with those of Karl Welteke's, are a bedrock of the study of Corregidor:I have replied to John as follows (Edited for clarity):Managing extensive photo collections on the internet isn't easy. It is I cannot underplay the great value that John Moffitt has been to the study of Corregidor. His images are magnificent and his collection exceptional. The FIELD NOTES feature is built around him, and it is just but one of several major contributions made by John. If members want to write him directly (but do not have his address) I suggest they use the personal message system of the Forum. Ditto for me.
There's more than a little importance to this, because it does bring to mind issues that I have been concerned about for some years - namely the role of the several websites and this forum into the future, and that at present there is no plan for succession. Some time back, Richard Johnsen died before his time, and his website Concrete Battleship was about to disappear. With the direct help and moral support of a 'Few Good Men', I was able to rescue it, and it continues its historic and educational role today. Websites are fragile things, they can disappear in a heartbeat (or lack of one), and in this regard, the approach by Mr. Roderick Hall is most apt.
Paul Whitman
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Post by EXO on Jul 1, 2017 13:34:48 GMT 8
1 July 2017
Welcome 1996jatp, who writes: "I'm interested in this group because my grand uncle was stationed in the Philippines before and during the opening stages of WW2. His name was Edgar R Hudson of Alix, Arkansas. He was a private in Company K of the 31st infantry division of the Philippine department. He died at Camp O'Donnell from dysentery.
Welcome hallink, who writes: "My name is Harold S. Link, Jr. My father was 1LT Harold S. Link, XO of A Btry, 462nd FA. I am an attorney and I live in Salisbury, MD. I was a field artillery officer in the USAR and National Guard for 26 years. I was a history major in college and I am interested in military history in general, and the history of my father's unit in particular."
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