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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2008 23:41:29 GMT 8
Karl, I still believe the partially concrete roof you have pictured by the South Dock was for observation out to sea without exposing your position. There is one just like it in Galveston,Texas at Fort Travis, built at the same time as Corregidor. That would not take much to uncover for posterity.........Col. Matibag knows of it, and being so close to where all get onto the island a definite tourist site.
As to the (possible) railroad tie bunker near the Trolley Car Barn area, (near the trolley junction), it should be unearthed by the proper authorities. For those who have not seen it, the bunker covers the approaches to roads going to Topside, the Hospital, Battery Way road, Battery Hearn.......It is worth a look inside. it was obviously covered by dirt from a large bomb which hit nearby or just graded over after the war. Also the foxhole obviously dug under the second Officers Quarters porch ( which has protected it over the years) should be further investigated. Not many like it to be found........... It is in the row going up to the lighthouse. It was probably one of ours to defend Topside form the Japanese coming up south road from the swimming pool area.It covered a wide area and is well protected from all sides.
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Post by EXO on Sept 20, 2008 7:16:03 GMT 8
The attached photo reminds me and I believe that’s what it is like in this pic. Karl
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Post by victor on Sept 20, 2008 11:25:18 GMT 8
This photo is the below ground communications hutch at Fort Mott, NJ. I'm not sure what's supposed to stick out of the little vent. Antennas?
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Post by armyjunk on Nov 18, 2008 0:40:47 GMT 8
Is this the one we are talking about? This is Cable Hut 1, telephone cables, the numbers over the years sometimes change new huts were built, but on 15 April 1936 this was number 1. the small opening in the ceiling is just a air vent, nothing more. The bottom pic is number 3 which appears to be the same as number 1, these come in many different shapes a easy one to find is across the road from the avairy
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Post by The Phantom on Nov 18, 2008 5:15:55 GMT 8
That's the location all right. Thanks for the clarification as to it's use.
From the excellent drawings you posted also, it appears to have steps leading in from the north end, and that it is 6 ft deep. I would still love to dig it out and see what remains inside after all these years. Possibly a time capsule from February 16th on, in 1945.
It may have been filled in soon after the battles in 1945, or the progress of the battle could have filled it in then. The area was in constant use during and after the battle in 1945. It may have been covered by debris from bomb and shell fire or buried by engineers to facilitate the use of the South dock area.
It's possible the scrapers missed it as inconsequential, taking only the metal vent pipe as scrape, not knowing what lay beneath the small concrete pad, wires and conduit.
Being in plain site as it is, right at the end of South Dock so to speak, is another plus for its continued existence. Hidden in plain site.
I need a good shovel........... Who knows what those old mines looked like? Torpedoes and bombs I'll recognize right?
(Or did the Japanese clean it out in 1942?)
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Post by armyjunk on Nov 18, 2008 10:54:52 GMT 8
I think the hut might have some still crated jeeps in it....
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Post by The Phantom on Nov 19, 2008 0:00:08 GMT 8
You're good....... But I read they took them out of the crates on board the ships before dispersal so they would fit in tighter spaces..... Probably a wrong book. If I find any on this trip next January, I'll save you one. Are you there next year?
I met you on Corregidor in 2001 I believe. You in full camouflage, me in shorts and tennis shoes, (that trip only). Paul was there and Selma and 2 Veterans, though I'm not sure who they both were now. We all met then on the veranda, me with my handful of 30 and 50 caliber slugs and a mango shake in hand. You guys looking at maps and talking of adventures to various locations. We met you when you were coming off the road from Engineers ravine. You were with an Aussie?
I was able to take the extended trip to Corregidor because I had just taken a package from my company, (actually gotten "separated") along with 5 others, including the fellow D.M. that came with me on that trip. Over 50, 20 years with the company, bulls eye on the forehead for sure. I wonder if that has happened to anyone else during a restructuring? I digress........
Was one of the veteran's Arlis Kline? And the other,he admonished me all the time on email thereafter about reading the wrong books by interlopers who didn't know what really happened on Corregidor. He was a real treasure.
He was captured in 1942. His name is on the tip of my tongue.........
Will save you a jeep if I find two, one's mine.
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Post by armyjunk on Nov 19, 2008 1:33:48 GMT 8
Phantom, Do you look at the CDSG? you might find things of interest over there...It wasn't me in camos, I always have a ragged green shirt and baggy shorts on...I would a gray jeep please... www.cdsg.org/forums/index.php
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