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Post by dmether on Jul 15, 2014 13:31:45 GMT 8
This was next to the KM 112 marker, wonder how old it is?
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Post by dmether on Jul 12, 2014 17:55:47 GMT 8
The B-32 looked a lot like the Navy version of the B-24, I think they had the same nose-mounted gun.
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Post by dmether on Jul 11, 2014 19:53:05 GMT 8
11 November 1944. Over the entrance to Ormoc Bay, Leyte VB-15 off of the USS Essex lost three SB2C3’s while striking Japanese ships. The photo shows one of them about to hit the water. The crews of all three aircraft are still MIA. 1. John E. Avery and Alfred T. Graham Jr. 2. John S. Foote and Norman W. Schmidt 3. Melvin G. Livesay and Charles E. Swihart John S. Foote had the Navy Cross for action against enemy Japanese surface forces over the Sibuyan Sea during the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Philippine Islands on 25 October 1944 Melvin G. Livesay had the Navy Cross for the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Philippine Islands on 25 October 1944. Also lost that day and still MIA is Thorolf E. Thompson who was flying a F6F over the Camotes Sea near Leyte. He had the Navy Cross for the Sibuyan Sea during the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Philippine Islands on 24 October 1944. Wondering if there was any other time that the US Navy lost 3 Navy Cross awardees in a single day?
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Post by dmether on Jul 10, 2014 18:55:50 GMT 8
Too much time on my hands Okla. And an interest in the subject. Here is Anthony J. Marchione's grave, the last American casualty in WWII, shot while on a recce flight over Tokyo on-board a B-32/Dominator.
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Post by dmether on Jul 9, 2014 10:13:20 GMT 8
Last causality of WWII was an NCO on a B-32 over Tokyo.
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Post by dmether on Jul 8, 2014 10:29:48 GMT 8
Don't count me out just yet, still have a few years left to go up and down hills, just not mountains. And I have a US National Archives trip in the preliminary planning stage. Boxes and boxes of Bataan reports that I didn't have a chance to get into last trip, and I spent 3 months there, 6 days a week scanning.
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Post by dmether on Jul 7, 2014 18:40:49 GMT 8
Some great research. Will be heading back to the area within the next few months to have a look around again. The map I scanned at the US National Archives, it was in a box full of POW reports. I believe it was done by an American POW while he was in Cabanatuan. I love how he stitched the pieces together.
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Post by dmether on Jul 6, 2014 14:35:43 GMT 8
This is a hand drawn map I scanned at the US National Archives, trail 6 and 29 both connect to trail 8 on the bottom. Although trail 6 connects to 4, I can see that if you were on 6 it would seems to connect to 29.
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Post by dmether on Jul 3, 2014 10:29:41 GMT 8
The reason for the memorial: David 2017-11th Oct. Note from Karl: This image was blocked by Photobucket because they changed their terms, about June 2017 without much notice, and do not allow 3rd Party posting anymore. That caused great hardship and disappointment to may Photobucket subscribers. It destroyed or caused great damage to many blogs and forums. This picture is reposted now from a different and friendlier server!
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Post by dmether on Jul 3, 2014 10:05:16 GMT 8
The possibility of American's being executed at the site comes from a report done by Pedro Felix, a Captain in the 91st Division who survived the massacre. He stated that before the slaughter of the Filipino soldiers, they first tied their hands with telephone wire. While being led to the massacre site, the junction of trails 6 and 29, he passed a group of about 15 to 20 American soldiers who also had their hands tied with telephone wire. Were they executed? Don't know, but the report seems to suggest that they were. We have been in contact with a couple of guys who think they located the site back in 1976, they found human remains and equipment. In their photo you can see what looks like a trail on the far side.
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