|
Post by Bob Hudson on Aug 1, 2012 11:38:39 GMT 8
Gentleman, For the past three days, I have been creating albums on Photobucket. Each album contains files of various interests dealing with Corregidor and the Philippines. Rather than notifying this group each time I create a new album, I wish to inform you that I am slowing uploading the myriad files I have in the Philippine campaign. Hopefully some of you will find information of use to you. Some of it will most likely be posted somewhere already. I currently have twelve albums uploaded and am in the process of uploading interim Cabanatuan Barracks rosters. If you check my Photobucket page intermittently, you will find more albums as I have the time to upload them. I have more information than I have the time to put them to good use and am hoping that some of you will find it of some help in your specific fields of expertise. s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae207/BataanSon/ Click on "all albums" and then scroll through the list of albums for that which will be useful to you.
|
|
|
Post by JohnEakin on Aug 2, 2012 2:13:18 GMT 8
Thanks, Bob. I've downloaded them all and it looks like some good stuff, there.
If Photobucket will accept .pdf files it will save you a lot of bandwidth. There's lots of shareware that will convert the .jpegs to .pdf.
|
|
|
Post by EXO on Aug 2, 2012 6:52:17 GMT 8
Bob, I ran a 'proof of concept' last night, where I converted and compiled one of your small galleries (Las Pinas) into a pdf file, preparatory to creating it as a "flipping book" presentation. I won't bother everyone with the technicalities (and there were some puzzling ones) save to say it's possible, though I prefer to enhance the images a little before fixing them into a single file. What would also assist a pdf file to stand on its own, would be to have a cover page which summarizes the source, and the content.
Presently, my time isn't my own. I thought I was in retirement, but my wife, some of my old clients, and the GFC all seem to have conspired together with other ideas. Shoot them all!!!
|
|
|
Post by JohnEakin on Aug 2, 2012 8:12:51 GMT 8
I pdf'ed some of the images, too, as they are much easier to handle and save a lot of storage space as well as bandwidth. Only takes a few seconds once you get the files unzipped.
Some of them were a little fuzzy, but still readable. I don't know if it was due to the resolution of the original or if Photobucket was doing it. I noticed that Photobucket has a pro version that provides a higher resolution.
|
|
|
Post by Bob Hudson on Aug 2, 2012 8:38:51 GMT 8
There were a couple pdf files but they wouldn't upload to photobucket. I am no expert on converting these files besides at my age, my patience is limited.
You guys are they historical experts. I just happen to have a lot of files. My expertise is in pows who at one time or another were in or passed through Bilibid prison.
I have information on POW camps in Japan. I have the original hand written roster of the Oryoku Maru. I can't list what I have because there is too much. Lots of photos as well.
I am assuming that this group is mainly interested in the Philippine campaign and not so much in POW camps in Japan and Manchuria. It is all fascinating to me but I have apparently bitten off more than I can chew. It is important to me to get these files out on the web somewhere and make them available to those googling for information on their ancestors.
|
|
|
Post by wwalker on Aug 2, 2012 9:07:40 GMT 8
Mr. Hudson,
Thank you for posting more of these great documents. I am researching the Philippine Campaign and the POW Camps, so either subject is of interest to me. I am in the process of going through the National Archives catalogue for such records, and with your sharing these documents it has saved me much time and money. I was getting ready to send off for Colonel Barr's papers, but you have them all photocopied. Thanks again.
WW
|
|
|
Post by JohnEakin on Aug 2, 2012 9:21:59 GMT 8
I suspect PhotoBucket won't take non-image files like pdf's. Perhaps someone more familiar with it will tell us for sure.
I'm with you, this stuff needs to be available to all, and I appreciate your efforts to get it out. Unfortunately, I don't know an easy way to do it. Putting them on a web site is awkward without a lot of work and an ftp site like I have kind of limits availability to a relatively small number of people.
You'd be surprised how much interest there is in the Japan, Korea and China camps - several people in our email circle specialize in those camps so don't let that stuff go to waste.
|
|
|
Post by chadhill on Aug 2, 2012 12:55:03 GMT 8
Bob- Wow! These are great historic files. We most certainly appreciate your efforts. Thank you-
|
|
|
Post by Bob Hudson on Aug 2, 2012 15:37:08 GMT 8
Thanks and you're welcome. Yes, some of the files are a bit blurry. I suppose I could of used my photo editing software to make some of those pages more legible but I would still be uploading the first album. I have Japanese & Manchurian camp stuff but most of that is on the web already.
I got a kick out of finding my fathers name on one of the Cabanatuan barracks rosters and he is on the Post of Manila Quartermaster depot roster which I didn't upload. 17 of the 22 men on that roster did not survive the war. Fred Baldassarres father and mine were two of the five survivors. One of the dead was Edward Gorodesky, uncle to the executive producer of "Two and a Half Men" on TV. He contacted me when he found my blog and discovered his uncles name on that roster. This passion of mine has had many surprises over the years including discovering that the Fire Captain in the town where I lived had a father who was in the same Japanese POW camp as mine in Japan. Too many other coincidences to mention but all very interesting.
|
|
|
Post by EXO on Aug 2, 2012 18:33:15 GMT 8
That's interesting. I saw that the files I ended up with were 150dpi. Bob, what was the original resolution?
I am not averse to hosting materials beyond Corregidor. I had even contemplated whether I should open sub-boards administered by people with special interest in the fields, where any topic involving the Philippines in WWII could be posted.
So hosting is possible, though I don't know how to accomplish different log-ins for shared hosting using MS Expression Web.
|
|