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Post by batteryboy on Mar 26, 2012 22:18:09 GMT 8
Had a bunch of several 44-45 Philippine air strike photos am identifying. A number of them show some great shots of the Rock. Here is a teaser:   A close up. Notice the crater that a 2,000 pounder caused in the loading platform of the battery. Cheers, |
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Post by fortman on Mar 26, 2012 22:59:25 GMT 8
Hi BB,
Thanks for the very interesting photo. I hope that there will be more of this.
fortman
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Post by darthdract on Mar 27, 2012 0:00:49 GMT 8
oy very interesting this is the first time I saw these photos That big Crater is still there to this day
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Post by okla on Mar 27, 2012 5:47:38 GMT 8
Hey Darth....Surely that spare barrel is long gone as we speak. Right?  ? I would be surprised if our friends from the North had let this juicy morsel escape the furnaces for melting. If not the enemy, then, I am sure that the diligent scrappers would have descended like locusts. I am under the impression that the Japanese used American POWs in an effort to recondition Battery Hearn (and others) to a working condition (without success). I am wondering what that very dark object, off to the right of the Battery, might be. Any ideas??? Postscript....I have always been struck by the fact that Hearn and Smith were so exposed to enemy shell fire. Most, if not all, of the other stationary Batterys are firmly casemated in that famous and abundant Corregidor concrete. Cheers. |
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Post by The Phantom on Mar 27, 2012 6:11:51 GMT 8
Nice shoots Battery.
I had not noticed the concrete stairway leading up the hillside.... to the right of the tunnel entrance. I wonder if it's still there?
They lead where?
Is that a destroyed bunker or building to the right of the 3 vents?
I have been to the top of the hill above Hearn with a veteran who fought there in 1945. Paul Turley was his name.
I think we were there in 2001?
He recounted the battles fought there daily, drunken banzai charges..........
He was a great guy, passed away a few years ago.
The gun barrel is still there Okla, to massive to move or cut up.
But was ruined before turnover to Japanese.
I can't see the 2 unusual trees that grace the road way around the complex today.
Although they look old enough today to have been in that picture.
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Post by batteryboy on Mar 27, 2012 6:15:59 GMT 8
Hi Okla,
The "spare" barrel is still there up to this day. Originally it was the barrel mounted during the siege of 1942. The Japanese restored this gun back into working condition by use of POW labor, replaced the barrel and salvaged parts from Battery Smith to put hearn back in working condition.
The Japanese never did use Hearn against the retaking forces. The relied more on their trusty 120mm Type 10 dual purpose gun.
B-boy
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Post by okla on Mar 27, 2012 9:12:47 GMT 8
Hey Guys....Thanks for the dependable and more accurate "poop from Group". I can always depend on you guys to clear up the many misconceptions, half truths, etc that I have accumulated over the many years of being a Corregidor/Bataan "geek". If I keep on this present course, the 1942 Philippine Campaign hasn't claimed its' final casualty, if you get my drift. Cheers
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Post by fots2 on Mar 28, 2012 18:48:26 GMT 8
That is an excellent photo batteryboy. Such photos are great for research before visiting a location. To see it during war time with few trees is very helpful.
Thanks for the post.
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Post by olivier on May 9, 2018 0:31:21 GMT 8
Had a bunch of several 44-45 Philippine air strike photos am identifying. A number of them show some great shots of the Rock. Here is a teaser: A close up. Notice the crater that a 2,000 pounder caused in the loading platform of the battery. Cheers, These pictures are amazing. Do you have others to share? |
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? I would be surprised if our friends from the North had let this juicy morsel escape the furnaces for melting. If not the enemy, then, I am sure that the diligent scrappers would have descended like locusts. I am under the impression that the Japanese used American POWs in an effort to recondition Battery Hearn (and others) to a working condition (without success). I am wondering what that very dark object, off to the right of the Battery, might be. Any ideas??? Postscript....I have always been struck by the fact that Hearn and Smith were so exposed to enemy shell fire. Most, if not all, of the other stationary Batterys are firmly casemated in that famous and abundant Corregidor concrete. Cheers.
