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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 12, 2018 17:56:41 GMT 8
The Eve before the 50th Anniversary at Fort Casey Our leader Steven Kobylk put in hundreds of hours of hard work getting this set up and a number of enthusiastic volunteers helped paint the guns and spaces to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the disappearing guns being installed at the fort, in 1968. Rick Slater is one of those volunteers, he visited us in the Philippines, and he uploaded about 25 real nice images to this Coastal Artillery Facebook page and made the quoted comments: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156654259237210&set=pcb.10156654263747210&type=3&theater&ifg=1Here are three sample images: Zc517. Ft. Casey, 10Inch guns, at eve of the 50th Anniversary, received from the Philippines, picture from Rick Slater, a park Volunteer. Zc518. Ft. Casey, 10Inch guns, at eve of the 50th Anniversary, received from the Philippines, picture from Rick Slater, Steven Kobylk, another volunteer and leader, at work. Zc519. Ft. Casey, 10Inch guns, at eve of the 50th Anniversary, received from the Philippines, picture from Rick Slater, the upper end of the shell hoist by lamp light. The words of Volunteer Rick Slater: As part of the weekend activities at Fort Casey State Park (for which I am a volunteer), the fort was lit up last night with several kerosene lamps to give the feel of the time before electricity was installed at the fort. The sky cooperated with a beautiful sunset. Our leader Steven Kobylk put in hundreds of hours of hard work getting this set up and a number of enthusiastic volunteers helped paint the guns and spaces to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the disappearing guns being installed at the fort, in 1968. The official ceremony takes place today. The guns were brought over from the Philippines, Subic Bay, which was a large American naval base at the time.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 12, 2018 11:53:11 GMT 8
Navy, 3 Corpsman Brothers, Canacao, Bilibid, Oryoku Maru The Northcott Brothers This is copied from the Navy Medicine Live Blog: navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/12474The Saga of the Northcotts: Three Brothers at Bilibid Prison By André B. Sobocinski Historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Zc512. Bilibid Prison in Manila from the Navy Medicine Live Blog. In the annals of naval history, perhaps there are no more famous siblings than the Sullivans—five brothers whose lives were lost aboard USS Juneau (CL-52) at Guadalcanal in 1942. Less well-known are the Northcott brothers—John (b. 1918), Robert (b.1920) and Thomas (b.1921)—three seamen apprentices-turned hospital corpsmen who miraculously survived a gauntlet of disease, torture and deprivation over their first years of service. Born in what was then the American territory of the Philippines to a British-born American father and a Spanish mother, the Northcotts came of age in Manila as war clouds spread across Asia. Anxious to serve their parts, the brothers enlisted in the Navy together in January 1941. They were assigned to USS Vaga (YT-116) a tug used for patrolling the Filipino coastline from the Cavite Navy Yard to the island of Corregidor. Soon after the Japanese invaded, the Northcotts helped scuttle the Vaga off Corregidor and join a naval unit attached to the 4th Marine Regiment in defense of Corregidor until their own capture on May 6, 1942. Along with fellow defenders of Corregidor, the Northcotts were transferred to Bilibid. From the Tagalog word meaning “prison,” Bilibid was the name a detention facility located in the heart of Manila. Zc513. Navy personnel from the Bilibid Hospital Unit, 1942 (Photo from BUMED Archives. Bilibid would be used to process thousands of American, Filipino, Dutch, British, Australian and Kiwi prisoners to labor camps throughout the Philippines and Japan. Among Bilibid’s internees were physicians, dentists and hospital corpsmen who had once staffed the U.S. Naval Hospital Canacao.1 Despite suffering from tropical disease, malnutrition and lacking sufficient medical supplies and equipment, the personnel of this “hospital unit” would continue to treat the sick and wounded, operating what was termed the “Bilibid Hospital for Military Prison Camps of the Philippine Islands.” The Northcotts were employed as “sick-bay strikers” working Bilibid’s makeshift hospital wards and receiving special instruction from doctors and pharmacy warrant officer in nursing, first aid, and administration. Bilibid’s hospital unit even had regular examinations for rate advancement. John, Robert and Thomas would each be examined and promoted to pharmacist’s mate third class in November 1942.2 In spite of many setbacks—including bouts of dengue fever and amebic dysentery—the Northcotts remained on near-continuous duty. As it was later reported in their Bronze Star citations, each carried on with their duties despite limited rations, constant harassment by guards; and each willingly shared their meager supplies of food, clothing and other necessary articles to less fortunate and ill prisoners. Zc514. John and Robert Northcott (center and right) with fellow POW PhM2c Ernest Irvin. (Photo from BUMED Archives) On October 21, 1943, John, Robert, and Thomas were among 228 Bilibid prisoners (including 72 patients) “drafted” for work detail on an old rice farm in Cabanatuan, 90 miles north of Manila. There the brothers would remain working in malaria-rife conditions until they were finally broken up. John and Thomas were drafted for transportation to mainland Japan aboard the “hell ship” Oryoko Maru. Robert would remain at Cabanatuan until his liberation. In December 1944, John and Thomas were loaded into the ship’s cargo hold with 1,617 others. Each were required to subsist on one-fifth of a canteen cup of steamed rice, two ounces of water, limited air, and no sanitary facilities. On that first night at sea 70 POWs would suffocate or die of dehydration. Two days later, while off Olongapo, the ship was strafed and bombed by aircraft from USS Hornet (CVA-8) killing another 270 prisoners. Those lucky enough to survive the sinking were herded onto a cattle boat which would be sunk off the island of Formosa killing an additional 268 prisoners. The remaining POWs were then loaded onto a third ship. Over the course of its 17-day voyage an additional 656 prisoners would die of exposure, starvation and disease before arriving in Japan on January 30, 1945—the very same day Robert Northcott was rescued from Cabanatuan. John and Thomas Northcott would spend the remainder of the war at prison camps in Japan before finally being liberated in September 1945. Zc515. Hell Ships Memorial in Olongapo, not far from the Oryoku Maru Grave from the URL: corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1203/hellships-memorial-subic-bayPostscript After the war, the Northcotts would remain in the Navy. John and Robert would serve through 1961, rising to the rank of Chief Hospital Corpsman (HMC). Thomas would be promoted to HMC in 1950 and serve with the First Marine Division in Korea until wounded in action in September 1950. While recuperating he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and would be medically discharged in 1951. For his actions in theater he would later be award the Silver Star. In 1968, the story of the three brothers would receive national attention when Robert was the subject of several news articles about his plight to return to the Philippines to visit his dying half-sister. Despite his military service, his records of his citizenship had been destroyed in the war and his application for a U.S. passport had been rejected by the State Department. He would refer to himself as a “Man without a country.”3 Zc516. Canacao Hospital, from this web page: web2.iadfw.net/lrs/sangley.html#hospitalNotes • 1). Originally established in 1906, Naval Hospital Canacao had been the Navy’s largest overseas hospital in Asia before 1941. After the bombing of Cavite and Sangley Point, the hospital was relocated to Manila and the hospital unit was interned at Bilibid. The nucleus of hospital personnel would continue to carry out their mission of healthcare while they themselves were imprisoned. The unit would remain in continuous existence until October 30, 1944 when Japanese military officials replaced most naval medical personnel with Army. • 2). From 1916 to 1948, Hospital Corpsmen served in six different rates from Hospital Apprentice Second Class through Chief Pharmacist’s Mates. During this period, corpsmen were typically referred to as “Pharmacist’s Mates.” • 3). Robert would die in 1988 followed by brothers Thomas (d. 2000) and John (d. 2005). Sources Dixon, Benjamin. “Manila Bay Episode—Postscript.” The Hospital Corps Quarterly, Vol. 19, May 1946, No. 5. Nelson, Jean. “Government Urged to Aid ‘Man Without a Country.’” The Times Standard, 5 July 1968, p1. Northcott. “Book of War Records.” Hospital Corps Archives Memo 268-45. BUMED Archives. Northcott, John Florence. Casualty Card. Hospital Corps Collection, BUMED Archives. Northcott, Robert Patrick. Casualty Card. Hospital Corps Collection, BUMED Archives. Northcott, Thomas Voicey. Casualty Card. Hospital Corps Collection, BUMED Archives. Northcott, John. Casualty Card. Hospital Corps Collection, BUMED Archives. Silliphant, William M. “Under the Japs in Bilibid.” Guests of the Emperor Collection. BUMED Archives.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 11, 2018 12:30:56 GMT 8
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 10, 2018 8:42:17 GMT 8
Battery Sunset Magazine On my way to visit Searchlight No.2 on 7th July 2018, I stopped by the Battery Sunset Magazine and took some pictures and share these because these views are not presented yet: Zc504. This is the concrete walled entrance way to the Battery Sunset Magazine and is a 2006-March-05 image. Notice how unrestricted from vegetation this walled walkway was in 2006. Zc505. This is the concrete walled entrance way to the Battery Sunset Magazine and is a 2018-07-07 image, what a difference from 2006. If you look close enough there is a concrete recess or hole in the wall. In fact each side of this walled entrance way to the battery has one. Zc506. This is the concrete recess or hole in the wall from the last image (No. Zc505). This is a 2018-07-07 image. Zc507. This is the concrete recess or hole in the concrete walled entrance way to the Battery Sunset Magazine and is a 2006-March-06 image. This is the left wall if you walk into the magazine. Zc508. This is the same concrete recess or hole in the concrete walled entrance way to the Battery Sunset Magazine as in the last picture, No. Zc507 but is a 2018-07-07 image. This is the left wall if you walk into the magazine. In the Corregidor.org web pages is an excellent presentation about Battery Sunset from John Moffitt aka fots2: -Battery Sunset, Field Note from John Moffitt: corregidor.org/fieldnotes/htm/fots2-110514.htm
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 9, 2018 10:45:33 GMT 8
Heavy Rain Olongapo and SBFZ 2018-08-22 Sustained rainfall triggered flooding in 16 villages here on Sunday (July 22), prompting 343 families, many from Barangay Sta. Rita, to stay in evacuation centers. Heavy rain also caused a landslide at the Subic Bay Freeport. Many residents posted their condition over social media to seek aid. The Olongapo government suspended classes in all levels in public and private schools on Monday (July 23). On the 24th of July 2018 I took a walk from Barrio Barretto, thru SBFZ, the former Naval Base and then walked to the Olongapo Market. On the 25th July I walked thru Barrio Barretto. These pictures were shot during these two walks. In this forum presentation I uploaded 12 images. When I made these two walks I generated 64 images and I put them into this Photobucket album, (Photobucket harasses you with advertisements) s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Philippines/No%202%20Phil%20Events%20Group%20Albums/2018%20SB%20OC%20BB%20ZAM%20Events/Heavy%20Rain%20Olongapo%202018-08-22?sort=9&page=1About 60 of those images I also put them into this Facebook album, if interested: (not everybody can watch Facebook). www.facebook.com/karlwilhelm.welteke/media_set?set=a.10214334500270072.1073741862.1643946293&type=3I started a webpage about this heavy rain and it has only 28 images: (you should not have advertisement or need to be member looking at this one). philippine-sailor.net/2018/08/06/heavy-rains-22nd-july-2018-in-subic-bay/Zc471.Olongapo Market flooded 22nd July 2018 from the Inquirer: Heavy rainfall floods 16 villages in Olongapo By: Joanna Aglibot - @inquirerdotnet Inquirer Northern Luzon / 10:27 PM July 22, 2018 Read more: newsinfo.inquirer.net/1012861/olongapo-flooding#ixzz5NOAZ7sKK Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook Zc472. Karl on his walk thru SBFZ 2018-07-24, much of this trash ended up here on the Subic Bay Freeport Zone Beach because of the heavy rains on the 22nd Jul. Notice the two U.S. Military Sealift Command (USNS) ships, they are oilers, moored in a nest along the Alava Extension Wharf. These types of ships are often in port here. Zc474. This is the intersection of Dagupan St. and Rizal St. at the Barretto Market, called Tally Papa (not sure about the spelling}. The dirty water was at least a foot deep or more here; they used fire fighter water truck to wash down this intersection. I live nearby but where I live it is higher and we did not have this problem. Zc475. I walked down the Dagupan Street in Barrio Barretto, a car had to be tied up so it did not float away but it got flooded. Other houses had sand bags piled up in front of their house doors. Remember this walk was about two days after the heavy rain. Zc477. Walking on the National Road from Barrio Barretto to the Kalaklan Gate of the SBFZ, this is above Sierra Beach, just leaving Barretto. This picture is interesting because of several reasons- the water rushing down and the fresh water connections, they are new, and maybe a year ago all these people living here on the slopes got their fresh water connection-FINALLY! A thought, why are there so many floods and landslides? There are too many people and no room to live except to build residences on these slopes all around Subic Bay. Do we need to curb this uncontrollable population increase and or do we need better living standards to afford high rise apartments? Zc479. Walking on the National Road from Barretto to the Kalaklan Gate of the SBFZ; this is power transformer station at Halfmoon Beach/Valley, it looks they got hit by the flood also. I had to run my generator for 30 hours. Zc480. The Olongapo City cemetery, near the Kalaklan Bridge suffered two landslides; this is the bigger one and made the National news. Zc482. After the Mt. Pinatubo explosion the Navy built several of these large Quonset type huts. These two are near the Kalaklan Gate; this is a nice comparison view after one was modified to become a church. Zc486. This is the Tappan Park of the former Naval Station, the park is not always maintained the way it should. It, the church, and the Spanish Gate are about the only things left from the pre WWII Olongapo Naval Station. After we (the US Navy) left in 1992 a stature of James Gordon Sr. was added. Zc489. This is a shot of the circle, rotunda, at the intersection of Magsaysay Drive and Rizal Ave. in Olongapo. Straight ahead the road is called Rizal Extensions and the traffic now runs ONE WAY along Rizal Extension, before the drainage canal, the traffic must turn left or go straight across the Rizal Bridge into SBFZ. Then at the main gate bridge, the traffic turns left again and follows Magsaysay Drive ONE WAY back to the rotunda. Those two large buildings were built after the Navy left in 1992. Zc490. This is the Hospital Road, next to the Marikit Park and used to go the hospital, museum and the convention center. All three establishments are torn down, are gone and a 2nd and bigger SM Mall is going up. Zc493. This is on Rizal Ave. near the Olongapo Market, as the lead picture showed it flooded here about hip high and the shops are cleaning up.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 6, 2018 14:59:50 GMT 8
Second Segment Just one walk on Corregidor 2018-07-06 I visited Corregidor 2018-07-06 to 08; the purpose was to find out what changed if anything under the new Corregidor Foundation Inc management. I have made already many entries in our forum from this visit. These entries were about news items, about Bottomside, some gun batteries and some structures etc. Now I will make my traditional trip entry about my walk to Battery Cheney 2018-07-06, I have chosen 22 images and will present those images in two segments. On Corregidor one has to climb elevations and between the woods I sweat like a pig. I used up 4 liters of waters on this walk but 7 for the whole day. Because my favorite Sari Sari store has ceased to exist (Freedom Café), the new CFI closed it and took over the rental room units, I brought my own food and water and that was a good idea. But I hope that that friendly Rest Place (Gasthaus) will rise again and make my visit a pleasure again. During those two days there seemed to be no social life anymore on the island. Was it because the island employees cannot use the Karaoke anymore? Second segment of 11 images: Zc426. 0ne of four images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is along the Battery Cheney rail track, a large culvert which I did not see before, there is an even bigger one east of the massive magazine. Zc428. 0ne of four images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is along the Battery Cheney rail track, unknown column blocks. Zc429. 0ne of four images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is along the Battery Cheney rail track, this massive magazine building. Zc432. 0ne of four images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, I found the 50 Star U.S. flag still flying at the PIR 503d First Flag marker, I turned it in. I don’t know how long it was flying; maybe it was hoisted for my visit, he, he? But the flag was clean and intact. Zc434. 0n my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, I checked on the entrance to the large Middleside Tunnel. It is still open but I don’t like to enter most tunnels anymore without a partner. Zc435. 0ne of two images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the Stockade Level, the 4th Marines school plaques are still there on the wall. Zc436. 0ne of two images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the Stockade Level, the Rowhouse is left and straight ahead is a CFI utility bldg. Not visible, at right is another row-house like structure where the CFI personnel and others are quartered. I believe, under the new CFI management all have to pay some rental fee now. Zc437. 0ne of five images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, we see the busy North Dock area. Zc438. 0ne of five images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, the waters off the north shore are calm and the local fishermen are out. Because of the SW Monsoons it is very calm at this side, and the Manila Bay trash is not here right now. There were SW ocean swell rolling in on the other side. Zc440. 0ne of five images (in the album & web page) of my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, Malinta Hill had a recent rockslide from above the west entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel. A resident told me it was about 5 truckloads of debris. Zc441. 0n my walk from Battery Cheney down to Bottomside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the 3rd time today that I came across the street maintenance crew, very good! On the 6th to the 8th July 2018 I visited Corregidor and so far I only documented my first walk on the 6th of July. If you like to look at all the pictures of this walk, either click on my web page with 63 Images: philippine-sailor.net/2018/08/01/walk-to-battery-cheney-2018-07-06/Or my Photobucket album with 66 images: s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20at%20Random/CI%202017-2019%20Random%20Albums/2018%20to%20B-Cheney%20walk%20July-06?sort=9&page=1
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 6, 2018 14:14:29 GMT 8
Hello T2 Zc416. This is perhaps Al McGrew’s MG Position at Middleside Fort Mills during the Siege on Corregidor Island. Was Al’s MG position here, did I interpreted your input correctly? So Al was guarding the rear, the inland side, of his battery? Did you check out his position and was there anything left? ------------ Yes, this was his second MG position. We were sitting there, not far off the road, waiting for a passing vehicle to take us back down to bottom side, when he told me of it. He said that he had expected to die there, because everyone believed that Corregidor was going to be defended, just like the Alamo. Everyone was dumbfounded when they were ordered back to their positions at the battery, finding that they had been surrendered without having fired a shot. He was so disgusted with the army he threw his dog tags away. Many people tended to think of Al as a serious, almost crabby guy, but he had a really good sense of humor, and was an absolute pleasure to be with. It goes without saying that I miss him. Bless em All! Exo.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 5, 2018 20:09:42 GMT 8
Just one walk on Corregidor 2018-07-06 I visited Corregidor 2018-07-06 to 08; the purpose was to find out what changed if anything under the new Corregidor Foundation Inc management. I have made already many entries in our forum from this visit. These entries were about news items, about Bottomside, some gun batteries and some structures etc. Now I will make my traditional trip entry about my walk to Battery Cheney 2018-07-06, I have chosen 22 images and will present those images in two segments. On Corregidor one has to climb elevations and between the woods, I sweat like a pig. I used up 4 liters of waters on this walk but 7 for the whole day. Because my favorite Sari Sari store has ceased to exist (Freedom Café), the new CFI closed it and took over the rental room units, I brought my own food and water and that was a good idea. But I hope that that friendly Rest Place (Gasthaus) will rise again and make my visit a pleasure again. During those two days there seemed to be no social life anymore on the island. Was it because the island employees cannot use the Karaoke anymore? First segment of 11 images: Zc379. My Garmin device data and tracks of my walk to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills, in the Manila Bay Harbor Defense Command, 1 of 3 images of the walking data from my GPS devises 2018-07-06. Zc380. My Garmin device data and tracks of my walk to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills, in the Manila Bay Harbor Defense Command, 1 of 3 images of the walking data from my GPS devises 2018-07-06. Elevation! Zc381. My Garmin device data and tracks of my walk to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills, in the Manila Bay Harbor Defense Command, 1 of 3 images of the walking data from my GPS devises 2018-07-06. Zc384. 0ne of eight images (in the album) of my walk from Bottomside up to Middleside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is road maintenance team at work as always. All the roads that are used for the day tour were maintained very good. Zc389. 0ne of eight images (in the album) of my walk from Bottomside up to Middleside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the former Aviary and then Kwiecinski Family residence, they have returned to the US. Zc390. 0ne of eight images (in the album) of my walk from Bottomside up to Middleside on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the view to the YMCA but one cannot see it because of the growing trees. Zc396. 0ne image of my walk from Bottomside up to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the entrance to Battery Way. Zc407. 0ne of five images (in the album) of my walk from Bottomside up to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the Pacific War Memorial area, the flags were not up even though it is a general visiting day. I believe they were always up during my previous visits, in the last 15 years. In Subic Bay, SBFZ, they fly the Philippine Flag proudly 24/7! Why not here anymore during the day; SBFZ has permission to fly the Philippine National Flag 24/7/365. Zc408. 0ne of five images (in the album) of my walk from Bottomside up to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is the Pacific War Memorial area, I never noticed the crack before. Zc411. 0n my walk from Bottomside up to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, a tree is down at the Senior Officer Quarters Topside, at the east section. There are two trees down on the road to Battery Cheney. One tree was down near the Middleside Barracks. Trees are growing in the gun loading platforms of Battery Wheeler and Cheney. I hope CFI will not allow for the tree in the pool (inside the Mile Long Barracks) to grow too tall and damage the ruins more!!!!! Zc415. 0ne of five images (in the album) of my walk from Bottomside up to Battery Cheney on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in WWII, 2018-07-06, this is Battery Wheeler, a 12 Inch battery. On the 6th to the 8th July 2018 I visited Corregidor and so far I only documented my first walk on the 6th of July. If you like to look at all the pictures of this walk, either click on my web page with 63 Images: philippine-sailor.net/2018/08/01/walk-to-battery-cheney-2018-07-06/Or my Photobucket album with 66 images: s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20at%20Random/CI%202017-2019%20Random%20Albums/2018%20to%20B-Cheney%20walk%20July-06?sort=9&page=1
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 5, 2018 16:06:26 GMT 8
Philippine Army Artillery Monument web page is now finished! This Philippine Army Artillery Monument was established after WWII. In the process the two old Camp Dau, later Camp Gen. Del Pilar, (pre WWII) upright artillery shell like columns were incorporated. It is located in the Clark Freeport, the former Clark Air Base and Fort Stotsenburg before that. I used 28 images and put them onto this webpage: philippine-sailor.net/2018/08/04/philippine-army-artillery-monument-camp-dau-camp-del-pilar/In the previous entry 2018-08-04, I used 6 images already. In this last presentation, into this thread I chose 7 more images: Zc449. In grateful recognition in support in making this monument possible, Mabalacat City, Mabalacat Tourism Office, Global Gateway Development Corp. and the PVAO. Close-up. Zc457. The story of Camp Dau from the Shrapnel, Camp Magazine in 1938, later rewritten by a Philippine Field Artillery Officer and the Mabalacat Tourism Office. Zc459. The overall view of the Philippine Army Artillery Monument, commemorating the former Phil. Army Camp Dau (later Camp Del Pilar) in the Clark Freeport, the former Fort Stotsenburg and later the Clark Airbase. We are looking in the south-west (SW) direction. Zc460. The SW artillery gun, out of two guns, at the Philippine Army Artillery Monument, commemorating the former Phil. Army Camp Dau (later Camp Del Pilar) in the Clark Freeport, the former Fort Stotsenburg and later the Clark Airbase. Zc461. The NE gun shell like column at the Philippine Army Artillery Monument from the former Philippine Army Camp Dau (later Camp Del Pilar) in the Clark Freeport, the former Fort Stotsenburg and later the Clark Airbase. We also see the NE artillery gun, out of two guns, at the Philippine Army Artillery Monument. Zc463. The new Philippine Army Artillery Monument commemorating the former Phil. Army Camp Dau (later Camp Del Pilar) in the Clark Freeport, the former Fort Stotsenburg and later the Clark Airbase is located under these trees! This Google Earth image will help in regards the intercardinal direction points I used. . Zc466. One of six images, sweeping from left to right are shots of the Clark Freeport from the Philippine Army Artillery Monument, this is in the SW direction. We see the Medical City Clark, we VA and TRICARE patients may go there for treatment.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 4, 2018 15:17:54 GMT 8
Philippine Army Artillery, Camp Dau, Camp Del Pilar
This Philippine Army Artillery Monument was established after WWII. In the process the two old Camp Dau, later Camp Gen. Del Pilar, (pre WWII) two upright shells were incorporated.
Zc442. The Golden Gate of Camp Dau, at barangay Dau. Mabalacat, flanked by two upright shells; Circa 1938-1940. Photo Credit-Alex R. Castro from this URL: viewsfromthepampang.blogspot.com/2007/09/47-camp-dau.html The above URL has a great short history of the camp. This is the way the entrance to Camp Dau, later Camp Gen. Gregorio Del Pilar looked like before the war.
Zc443. The former Gate of Camp Dau, at barangay Dau. Mabalacat, flanked by two upright shells after WWII. The camp ceased to exist during the onslaught of Imperial Japan and the columns got neglected. This picture came from this URL and has 3 more images. nhcphistoricsites.blogspot.com/2011/11/artillery-memorial.html
Zc444. That is how the new Philippine Army Artillery Memorial, Monument looks today, 2018.
Zc445. That is how the new Philippine Army Artillery Memorial, Monument looks today, 2018; this is a close-up.
Zc446. Reconstructed Artillery Monument Unveiled, Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) by Angela Kaye Crescini [ 6/2/2017 ]
11 May 2017, South Clark, Mabalacat, Pampanga— Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) Veterans Affairs Management Division (VAMD) Chief MGen. Alfredo Cayton Jr. AFP (Ret), represented PVAO Administrator Ernesto G. Carolina and graced the unveiling of the Artillery Monument, a joint project of PVAO, the Artillery Foundation of the Philippines, Inc. (AFPI), the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), and other public and private stakeholders. The above information came from this URL: server.pvao.mil.ph/News-Details.aspx?id=510
Zc447. A Google Earth image, it shows the location of the Reconstructed Philippine Army Artillery Monument at the Clark Freeport.
More to come in the future!
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