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Post by T2 on Nov 12, 2018 18:16:31 GMT 8
I cannot believe this, it is so destructive to the wellbeing of Corregidor. You just don't run a historical site like this! Coming from Bermuda we all know how fragile tourism is, it is our life line here. I hope someone can get a hold of this and fast!
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Post by T2 on Oct 30, 2018 5:14:18 GMT 8
WOW....what an awesome adventure, I love this story
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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:45:15 GMT 8
In this capture you can see the rail goes right into the QM machine shop so therefore the cannon would have been brought down by rail and gone no further than its present day position.
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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:42:16 GMT 8
If you recall the Canon is laying in the position under the south east corner of the QM Machine shop
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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:36:16 GMT 8
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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:36:06 GMT 8
I would like to take a step back to my post on page 6 in this thread and inject a new opinion or SWAG if you will. My friend Anthony Garcia is quite the history buff here in Bermuda. His specialty, I would say, is the ships of the 1800’s early 1900’s but has expertise in buildings, bridges, events, graveyards, artifacts and of course the entire Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda in which I am very fortunate to live in and see everyday. I showed Anthony the cannon at Bottomside for his opinion and to share with all of you.........Yes! For some reason that cannon is fascinating to me. So here are my points that form my SWAG. 1) As mentioned before – she’s an old girl. 1899 to 1940s is old in terms of an iron gun on an island. She would have been rusted by then and probably unstable to use. 2) such a huge gun is clearly from a battery at the top of the hill as you mentioned. 3) if the gun was to be scrapped, the Americans would have simply cut her up on the spot by the battery. By the 1940s, they had mobile cutting torches. 4) The only thing that the Americans could have done to reuse her would have been to sandblast her. So if you can prove that there was a sandblasting facility in that warehouse then your SWAG is correct. 5) however the breach is missing. The missing breach typically means that she was cut off or removed to dismantle the gun. Therefore my swag is as follows: the Japanese stripped every piece of iron off the island to most likely send it back to the foundries in Japan for metal for the war effort. Rails were gone and most likely the guns too. My thought is that at some point in the 1930s the Americans dumped this old gun at the top of the hill. Cut her breach off and left her to rot, simply threw her off the side of the battery and replaced her with a new were gun. When the Japanese took over they scrapped all the metal they could find. They most likely found this old gun much later and got her to the docks to send home. However something caused them to abandon this plan and leave her on the spot. Maybe once they got the gun down, it was too heavy to move. But even then they could have cut her up on the spot. I’m really baffled by this gun. Also why did the Japanese decimate the island why not just over run it, and then use the island for their war effort? Why demolish it?
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Post by T2 on Aug 7, 2018 1:27:06 GMT 8
...JUST FASCINATING...
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Post by T2 on Aug 6, 2018 18:08:18 GMT 8
That is correct Karl. Al was ordered to build a MG nest to engage any Japanese soldiers coming up the road from Bottomside and Ramsay Ravine. I have not checked any of the area but will on my visit this year. In my photo, possibly the rise in landscape may be something to look at. Battery Ramsay was annihilated with a direct hit so I would imagine the machine gun position was an easy target to wipe clean after that. I am quite sure the position was confirmed by Al McGrew on a visit with Paul. You have me quite interested now!
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Post by T2 on Aug 6, 2018 7:46:02 GMT 8
The men were marched from the parade grounds down this road to Bottomside thru Malinta Tunnel and ultimately 92nd garage, their first POW camp. As they made the first left turn Al glanced at the MG nest with the thought that it never fired a shot!
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Post by T2 on Aug 6, 2018 7:22:48 GMT 8
Approximately in the center of this photo was Al's machine gun nest...
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