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Post by The Phantom on Dec 12, 2014 7:58:03 GMT 8
Has anyone read this book? The Wainwright Papers Volume IV by CELEDONIO A. ANCHETA.
He is a Philippine author who was involved in the Quartermaster Corps. helping to set up Quartermaster type sites throughout the Philippines prior to the start of hostilities in 1941. He was also involved in the same type of duty after the start of the war. I just started reading the book and it seems very detailed. So am I missing the first 3 volumes?
One of his duties was to order 55 gallon steel drums for gasoline transport in the Philippines pr-war, because there weren't enough tanker trucks to move all the various fuels around, and there were no steel 55 gallon drums in the P.I. at that time.
He states;
"A requisition was also sent for 500,00 type C (Reserve) rations, as there were none in the Dept..... A radio was sent to the U.S. War Dept.requesting immediate shipment of 55 gallon steel drums for 1,000,000 gallons of gasoline........
A short time later 300,000 gallons of motor vehicle gasoline in 55 gallon steel drums, along with 100,000 Type C rations (12,500 cases) were sent to Camp Limay, Bataan for storage.
( Camp Limay?)
it is interesting to note that all the steel 55 gallon drums arrived from the Unites States full of gasoline, although none had been requested. This timely requisition met our motor vehicle gasoline needs on Bataan and carried us through the entire operation, as there were no other available facilities on the peninsula."
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Post by oozlefinch on Dec 12, 2014 12:55:16 GMT 8
Yes, you are missing vols. I, II and III. I bought my copy in a mall bookstore in Manila (don't ask me which mall) in 1987. I haven't read any of them in quite a number of years.
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Post by The Phantom on Dec 13, 2014 9:05:08 GMT 8
Thanks oozlefinch, if I had just turned the book over I would have seen that information on the back! It appears each volume covers a different facet of the pr-war years and the 1941-42 war in the Philippines.
Volume 1 Report on operations of USAFFE and USFIP IN THE PHILIPPINES,1941-42 including info from GEN. JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT GEN. GEORGE PARKER JR., GEN. ALBERT JONES, GENERAL EDWARD KING JR.............
Volume II Report of GEN. GEORGE MOORE, Commander coast artillery, GEN. CHARLES SAGE, coast artillery AA batteries and GEN.JAS.R.N.WEAVER,provisional tank commander.
Volume III Report of GEN.SHARP,Commanding general Visayas/Mindanao force, COL. BEN HUR CHASTAINE, movement of 3rd Philippine constabulary regiment,.....
Volume IV Report on the operations of the Philippine Division, United States Army by Col. H.C. Browne, Quartermasters Corps.GEN CHARLES C. DRAKE. Signal Corps. COL.T.T.TEAGUE, and report by the Finance Officer, COL. JOHN R. VANCE.
I will have them all................
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Post by The Phantom on Sept 4, 2015 4:03:16 GMT 8
Finally found my original post.........
More insight into life on Corregidor as those from Manila, in this case the Finance Dept., tried to do their jobs on Corregidor under fire. Fots, more on Malinta Tunnel use...
" We were finally moved to Corregidor where little if any provision had been made for our coming. This refers simply to space in which to work, sleep, and preserve a fair degree of personal cleanliness: and enough food on which to carry on, without any consideration of comfort. Bombed out of our assigned quarters at Middleside Barracks on 29, DECEMBER, we were given 30 lieal feet of space in a crowded lateral of Malinta Tunnel. Using this for our office, part of the men found places to sleep in the open on the busy slopes of Malinta hill. Fox holes were dug near by to afford protection during the frequent air raids and the shelling from Ternate. The remainder were similarly installed at the insular vault, nearly a mile away. At least one officer was present in the office at all times, day or night. Messing with the Headquarters and Marine Messes where the 1/2(really 1/30 ration was served. Sanitary facilities were few and frequently interrupted by bombing and shelling.
The Filipino personnel worked and lived at Kindley Field. While quartered in the partially destroyed barracks building, they improvised an office out of doors, always convenient to foxholes.
These arrangements lasted about 4 months, until the end of April, when following the fall of Bataan the Japanese Artillery joined the air corps in the systematic destruction of everything on Corregidor, which eventually drove inside the tunnels everyone not actively engaged in the defense.
But by that time, the end was approaching and little need be said of the near bedlam that soon arose in the main roadway which was jammed with frightened native laborers, whipped refugees from Bataan, and stragglers from our own garrison."
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