KARL SHOOTS PEOPLE (images), SOME TIME
This is my seventh and last segment of images from my visit to Corregidor 2016-02-15 to 17.
These pictures were shot when the Remee Aring, spouse of the Corregidor Phantom, with her family toured Corregidor in Commemoration of Tom’s accidental death.
I started an album of that visit and I added these 8 images (J1 to J12) that show changes in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island.
This is the album URL:
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tinyurl.com/gqnbpomOnly 7 pictures are uploaded into this entry and the images are much smaller:
V33 (J1) on the 16th of Feb. 2016 we are standing on the North Mine Dock, Corregidor Island, waiting for the Sun Cruises Ferry to arrive with the larger group of the extended family of Tom Aring (Phantom) to join us for the Memorial of Phantom.
These folks are Corregidor Foundation (CFI) Personnel who supported us wholehearted in celebrating the 71st Anniversary of raising the US Flag on Liberation Day, 1945-02-16 and the remembrance celebration for Tom Aring.
We rented two vehicles and drove up to Topside, raised the US Flag for the 71st Anniversary it was raised at Liberation-Day, 1945.
V34 (J4) it is noontime, chow time, but MacArthur Café is closed; where will we go with about 18 people; the hotel is too expensive! Ok, we go the south watering hole; our long time Corregidor resident Diana friend said she can handle 18 people.
V35 (J5) Diana is the daughter of two very long time employees of the Corregidor Inn and I remember when Diana was still a teenager. Now she is married has many kids and runs this watering hole, Nhicko Jee, and that gives us more choices on our visits!
V36 (J6) Diana’s place used to be the former Coast Guard Station building, a long time ago, my guess is based on four names and Coast Guard ratings (pay grades) are written in concrete at the base of the former flagstaff in front of the building.
I was a little worried whether Diana really could handle that many people without us making any prior arrangement. But Diana came thru with flying colors and we all were sat-isfied. We killed the rest of the noontime here until the ferry boarding time. The whole Tom Aring family departed. Harald and I continued our visit.
V37 (J10) the reason I put this picture in the album, belated, is, because it shows the Power-line connection from the new Bio-Gas Power Plant in the Eng. Ravine on Corregidor, which received its final electrical control equipment during this visit.
V38 (J11) often I get critiqued, that I seem only to take pictures of old fallen buildings and the surrounding hills. Well, you are wrong; sometime I aim the camera at pretty faces! This is Boardwalk Café, a very active watering hole at the North-Shore.
V39 (J12) I emigrated from Germany in 1959 as a 17 year old, but I still have roots leading back to the Old Country. This is the 3rd year that my family friend Harald Klose, a retired German Army Officer, accompanied me to the very historic Corregidor Island.
The main purpose of this visit was to meet the Tom Aring Family on Corregidor, hold a memorial, and spread Tom’s ashes. Then on the 16th Feb. raise the US Flag again on the old Corregidor Flag Staff in memory of it being first raised by the paratroopers on this day Topside on Corregidor, the day they jumped on the 16th Feb. 2016.
I made an entry about that portion of the visit in this URL, it cover the whole length of page 2 but page one is also interesting!
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1868/taps-phantom-tom-aring?page=2TOM ARING, PHANTOM, FAREWELL VISIT 2016-02-15/16.
The immediate and extended family of Tom Aring visited Corregidor to bid Tom farewell on these dates.
The Corregidor Foundation Inc. under the executive control of Lt. Col. Matibag and the onsite leadership of Mr. Benadero made the family very, very welcome and helped in every way they could.
A friend of mine and I were invited to come along and I took these pictures.
This is a temporary album only with 76 images; it will be removed in the future. This is about the Tom Aring’s Family visiting Corregidor on the 15th and 16th Feb 2016 to bid farewell to him. Tom Aring was –Phantom -- in our Corregidor Forum. These pictures do not have any descriptions. I will establish a shorter album in due time and the pictures will have descriptions. I am very busy right now with other things, sorry:
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tinyurl.com/zz2wl8zThis is the diary entry of our visit to Corregidor on 2016-02-15 to 17. This time I wrote it a few weeks later, better late than never!
Corregidor Diary 2016-15 to 17 Feb. with Remee Aring & Harald
The purpose of this visit was to meet the Tom Aring Family on Corregidor, hold a memorial, and spread Tom’ ashes. Then on the 16th Feb. raise the US Flag again on the old Corregidor Flag Staff in memory of it being first raised by the paratroopers on this day Topside on Corregidor, the day they jumped.
Sunday the 15th Feb. 2015.
Early in the morning with my German friend Harald went by car to Cabcaben, Bataan to Villa Carmen and took a boat to Corregidor. We received the Tom Aring Family at North Dock about 0930 who were coming from Manila with the ferry.
The hotel was completely booked, so Harald and I took a room in the Rowhouse for the first night.
We decided to do all the ceremonies tomorrow and today just make a leisurely tour of Corregidor. We enjoyed that and had a great dinner at the hotel in the evening.
Monday the 16th. Feb. 2016
With a lot of help from CFI, we received the rest of the large Tom Aring family, made plans with CFI and got the transportation and tried to raise the US Flag on the old Corregidor Flag Staff. The hail yard was fouled and it did not happen.
We proceeded to the very new replanted first flagstaff and held the flag raising ceremony there. Then we went to near the Eternal Flame at the Pacific War Museum and carried out the spreading of Tom Aring’s ashes there.
We visited a few more sites and then took a long lunch break at Diana’s place. She handled our large group of about 17 people without a hitch. Then we said good bye to each other and the whole Tom Aring family departed.
Note worthy is: to report that Sun Cruises now feeds many of the tourist at the new dining facility Topside and that the new toilet facilities nearby are now in operation.
After the departure of the Tom Aring Family, Harald and I visited or noticed these things or places:
The Tsunami concrete on top of one of the MG bunkers at San Jose Pt. is removed.
Visited the Navy Tunnel, the first one at right or south, the 2nd one did not dare to go in. The hole is very small now!
Near those Navy Tunnels is something of a transmitting facility built, does it have something to do with Tsunami warning system?
We had a look at old Diesel Power Plant.
Then we visited the new Bio Gas power plant, it still was not in operation.
I wanted to visit the large H-Shaped tunnel in the Eng. Ravine. It was hard to get back out these days; the hole is getting smaller and steeper.
Someone on Corregidor is building a third big boat near the Engineering Dock.
In the hotel not much Corregidor related material is left in the hotel library but I came across information about Sgt. Maj. LaFever and took some images.
In the morning of the 17th of Feb. 2016 Harald and I left Corregidor the way we came, via Bataan.
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