Post by Karl Welteke on Sept 11, 2015 16:15:16 GMT 8
THE FLAGPOLE IS AN ARMY STANDARD ISSUE, HIGH WIND FLAGPOLE. NOT FROM A BATTLESHIP
THE BALANGIGA BELLS ARE NEXT TO IT.
So says a plaque in Cheyenne Wyoming!
John Johnson was the first visitor and guest of the forum who challenged the myth that the Ft. Mills flagpole on Corregidor Island came from a Spanish warship sunk by Commodore Dewey in the Spanish American War. He is a veteran, works at the VA Hospital at Ft William Henry Harrison in Helena, Montana. He noticed that the flagpole there look very much like the one on Ft. Mills.
Montana is next door to Wyoming, but still not exactly close but he went there to check out the flagpole there, took some pictures for us and he wrote this.
Karl
Guess what, I found another flag pole that while not identical to the Corregidor flagpole (or the VA at Ft Harrison, MT or the Fort Robinson, NE flag pole), it is obviously mostly of the same construction but the upper section also made up of multiple small poles just like the lower section. I just found this today. It is located on F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. F. E. Warren AFB was originally known as Fort D. A. Russell. It was a US Army cavalry and infantry post during the Indian wars that followed the Civil War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_D.A._Russell_(Wyoming) and later became an Air Force base.
Something I found interesting was there is a plaque at the flag pole that reads the flag pole is not from the USS Wyoming but rather it is just a US Army high wind flag pole (who knew the Army even had a high wind flag pole.) The flag pole has a few war trophies located near it; one is the bells of Balangiga that were used to signal an attack of Bolo tribesmen who massacred Co C of the US 9th Infantry in 1901. The other trophy was a 16th century English canon that was seized in the PI and brought back in 1905. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balangiga_bells
John Johnson took pictures and at lower size they were put into this album, numbered G1 to G7, between 120 KB to 328 KB.
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20by%20subject/Historical%20Corregidor/Old%20Flagstaff?sort=9&page=1
The same 7 images are presented here but are much smaller:
W100 (G1) this makes it official the flag pole here and in Corregidor are not from the Navy, the Army knows how to built flagpoles, eat your heart out, you Navy Fans. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W101 (G2) the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. F. E. Warren AFB was originally known as Fort D. A. Russell. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W102 (G3) the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. It looks like the lower mast is bolted together in sections. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W103 (G4) the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. The view shows were the upper and lower masts are connected. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W104 (G5) close-up of the previous picture #G4, the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W105 (G6) close-up of the earlier picture #G3, the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W106 (G7) the bottom of the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base and two of the Balangiga Bells, one more is located in Korea with an US Army unit there. The plaque there is shown in image G1. This is a John Johnson image.
THE BALANGIGA BELLS ARE NEXT TO IT.
So says a plaque in Cheyenne Wyoming!
John Johnson was the first visitor and guest of the forum who challenged the myth that the Ft. Mills flagpole on Corregidor Island came from a Spanish warship sunk by Commodore Dewey in the Spanish American War. He is a veteran, works at the VA Hospital at Ft William Henry Harrison in Helena, Montana. He noticed that the flagpole there look very much like the one on Ft. Mills.
Montana is next door to Wyoming, but still not exactly close but he went there to check out the flagpole there, took some pictures for us and he wrote this.
Karl
Guess what, I found another flag pole that while not identical to the Corregidor flagpole (or the VA at Ft Harrison, MT or the Fort Robinson, NE flag pole), it is obviously mostly of the same construction but the upper section also made up of multiple small poles just like the lower section. I just found this today. It is located on F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. F. E. Warren AFB was originally known as Fort D. A. Russell. It was a US Army cavalry and infantry post during the Indian wars that followed the Civil War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_D.A._Russell_(Wyoming) and later became an Air Force base.
Something I found interesting was there is a plaque at the flag pole that reads the flag pole is not from the USS Wyoming but rather it is just a US Army high wind flag pole (who knew the Army even had a high wind flag pole.) The flag pole has a few war trophies located near it; one is the bells of Balangiga that were used to signal an attack of Bolo tribesmen who massacred Co C of the US 9th Infantry in 1901. The other trophy was a 16th century English canon that was seized in the PI and brought back in 1905. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balangiga_bells
John Johnson took pictures and at lower size they were put into this album, numbered G1 to G7, between 120 KB to 328 KB.
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20by%20subject/Historical%20Corregidor/Old%20Flagstaff?sort=9&page=1
The same 7 images are presented here but are much smaller:
W100 (G1) this makes it official the flag pole here and in Corregidor are not from the Navy, the Army knows how to built flagpoles, eat your heart out, you Navy Fans. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W101 (G2) the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. F. E. Warren AFB was originally known as Fort D. A. Russell. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W102 (G3) the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. It looks like the lower mast is bolted together in sections. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W103 (G4) the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. The view shows were the upper and lower masts are connected. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W104 (G5) close-up of the previous picture #G4, the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W105 (G6) close-up of the earlier picture #G3, the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) located in Cheyenne Wyoming. This picture is provided by John Johnson from Montana.
W106 (G7) the bottom of the flagpole on the F. E. Warren Air Force Base and two of the Balangiga Bells, one more is located in Korea with an US Army unit there. The plaque there is shown in image G1. This is a John Johnson image.