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Post by sherwino on Apr 20, 2012 17:20:56 GMT 8
I had seen this cave many times since I was a kid. Then there was a long time that I had not saw it. After reading Montgomery's "I hired out to fight" or "The Battle of Bataan" (whichever book, i forgot where I read about a cave where they hid), the cave came into my mind. Just last year, the house blocking the cave was removed. This cave is now available for public view. I made a stop there after registering my vehicle with LTO. It's right beside the Mamala river in Limay. Dug into the ridge beside it. Right beside the Highway(I don't know if most of the current highway is all part of the East Road). The area could have been a jungle before. The inside of the cave seems to be "molested" by treasure hunters. Any thoughts from you guys? Attachments:
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Post by sherwino on Apr 18, 2012 9:22:00 GMT 8
Thanks, ExO!
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Post by sherwino on Apr 16, 2012 15:17:38 GMT 8
That's a good news. There are more historical sites that need preservation and markings, not just for tourism but to commemorate the heroic efforts done for freedom.
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Post by sherwino on Apr 15, 2012 17:17:24 GMT 8
By the way, where are you getting those maps?
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Post by sherwino on Apr 15, 2012 17:16:14 GMT 8
I guess it still exist. Some of the war-time roads and trails still do exist. Some are now being used as provincial roads. I did walk on the trails at the Battle of the Points(Mount pucot area to Quarantine). The road going up to the Tagumpay hill and down to the junction still exists and people who live around uses it. ATV's can go there. I did with my motorbike.
Hand-written maps can differ a bit from the actual sites, but the old pictures in this forum help. There are some trails present in some hand-written maps and there are some not present. If you zoom-in using google earth or wikimapia and compare it with the old maps, you might be able to see that they still exist.
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Post by sherwino on Apr 15, 2012 14:21:23 GMT 8
dmether, I was longing to do this research even before I joined this forum. My lead was the book called Battle of Bataan and a lot of stuff I found in this forum. The area is now on Barangay Balon, Town of Mariveles. I extracted the map from wikimapia. The hill top is being converted into a subdivision. Hopefully the location of the battery is still untouched, though the guns were moved from time to time during the war. I have been there less than two years ago, but didn't make my way to the battery area for lack of information. The bridge on the drawing must be of old times and leading to Mount Mawakis area, next to Mt. Pucot. Some folks told me there were AA emplacements on that place a long time ago. A friend told me that during his younger days, they saw military trucks and boxes of ammunition over those hills. The trucks were rusting and the boxes were half-burried in earth as if they were just dumped there. A policeman saw his ammunition find and he told were he got it. The rest is history. I doubt there if there's anything there to find. Times are hard and every piece of junk is now valuable. I hope I got this right. Attachments:
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Post by sherwino on Apr 14, 2012 20:09:14 GMT 8
nice stuff, david. I bet Tagumpay hill is near the Mariveles air strip. That's how I recall it from the book by Donald Young. It's just a few stone throws from my house. Though I'm having a hard time pin-pointing the exact location, I have some lead. Your pics are very very interesting.
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Post by sherwino on Apr 10, 2012 7:47:28 GMT 8
hey , Fots. There were lots of vehicle I saw yesterday leaving Mt. Samat. I also saw a "uniformed" man that looks like Victor. I was on the road going home yesterday. My original plan was to go swimming with my wife at Morong on April 8, then proceed to Samat on April 9. My dearly beloved asked me that we go home to their province so she can see her mother. Surely, I did miss the event.
Would there any event like that in Corregidor this May?
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Post by sherwino on Apr 8, 2012 8:01:54 GMT 8
Nice WWII equipment, fots. Whoever owns those is very lucky.
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Post by sherwino on Apr 5, 2012 18:41:54 GMT 8
hey dmether, do you have a copy of the said map with 1km circle? There can be some possibilities with the location of the said P-40. Lt. Stone entered the clouds, two planes, one explosion. He could have bailed off or crashed somewhere within that 1km.
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