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Post by Registrar on Dec 18, 2014 17:55:47 GMT 8
Here's an image that didn't make it into the MANILA 1945 - AFTERMATH - book, due to some severe color imbalances that I couldn't overcome. Benjamin Limos has cleared them up, and done a nice job of it too, so now we present it to you. It's another from the FRED HILL COLLECTION but this time I can't place the street. Fred can't recall either. Can anyone place it? What about that car? What's that?
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Post by batteryboy on Dec 19, 2014 5:26:30 GMT 8
You may think I am a fool but I have seen similar structures in Baguio which is 250kms away! Another suspect is near the San Juan Water Reservoir or near the Balara Filtration area.
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Post by okla on Dec 20, 2014 0:06:00 GMT 8
Hey Registrar....I'm not much into antique automobiles, but could that vehicle, possibly, be a 1938 or 39 Packard?
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Post by Registrar on Dec 20, 2014 9:14:38 GMT 8
Batteryboy is correct, the structures are in Baguio. I have prepared a graphic.
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Post by batteryboy on Dec 20, 2014 9:19:09 GMT 8
I still have it ... but I am still a fool
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Post by Registrar on Dec 20, 2014 10:27:56 GMT 8
Okla, the car looks too humble to be a Packard. Might you settle for a Pontiac? Got no idea of which year.
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Post by okla on Dec 21, 2014 6:40:14 GMT 8
Hey Registrar....I would even humble myself and settle for a "low end" Buick. What puzzles me is how a vehicle, in what appears to be great shape, survived the War. One would think that some Japanese Staff Officer would have "liberated" this set of wheels in early 1942. Maybe, just maybe, this vehicle was stowed away in a barn/shed/etc as was that illustrious Tiger tank of which we spoke previously.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 3:42:48 GMT 8
I'm going with a 1940 Packard Model 120 sedan. Just my guess....
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Post by Registrar on Mar 15, 2015 8:27:24 GMT 8
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Post by darthdract on Mar 15, 2015 8:49:23 GMT 8
Its nice to see WWII Baguio Pictures. I need to read more about WWII Baguio, when WWII history in the Philippines is concerned its mainly the Leyte landing,Bataan,Coregidor and Manila that is being emphasized in schools.
I wonder what is the story in that Photo looks like the Buildings roof was burned out and in the modern pictures looks like damage from the 1990 Baguio quake.
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