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Post by T2 on May 2, 2017 7:13:44 GMT 8
Thank you beirutvet....I must be in....I got the word swag used on me...hehehe great news! That puts a BIG smile on my face my friend!!!
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Post by oozlefinch on Aug 15, 2017 13:09:58 GMT 8
I asked this question last year, but never got a response, so I'll try again. In the Belote book, pgs 210-211, it's stated that the Japanese had 150mm guns in caves. It is further mentioned that one was in a "masonry-lines tunnel". I have several questions. 1) I believe the Japanese guns that survived are 120mm dual-purpose guns. Were these the 150mm guns described in the book? 2) Assuming that these guns were the 120mm guns, does anyone know of any masonry lined tunnel, other than Monja, that could have accomodated a 120mm gun? 3) Does anyone have any information as to whether the Japanese had a gun in Monja?, and 4) Does anyone have any SWAG as to whether the gun in Monja, if there was one, could have been a captured American 155GPF. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Post by T2 on Jul 3, 2018 23:37:50 GMT 8
Hello everyone! After a disastrous Photobucket / Corregidor Inn cancelation and so on, I have been steered in the right direct by our leader Paul. I have re-signed with Photobucket for $48 bucks a year to hold & post up to 400 pix from their revamped website...very happy to say the stories will continue...posting soon!
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:00:50 GMT 8
....SO NICE to be back. I would like to pick up where I left off with Al McGrew & Spencer Bever and their first few days on Corregidor. This is nothing new here just my interest in retracing their steps and hopefully standing where they stood, a jump in time if you will to 1941-42. This photo is when Corregidor was near perfect. At mail call one day Al's mother requested a photograph be taken of him and Spencer, which unknowingly at that time would be the only item remaining from Corregidor and the war, it became his most cherished memory. In this photo on the left side you will see: the Topside / Middleside stairs, the trolley station, the Middleside barracks and just below, a J shaped building. From here you can see it is two levels but one level on the opposite side where the entrance was and the trolley tracks . I am quite certain the photo shop & studio was in this building as it was confirmed by Al during a chat with Paul some time ago.
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:01:46 GMT 8
This is that building.
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:10:44 GMT 8
Albeit a little cheesy with my iPad overlay, I sat in this photograph, sort of...at the bottom right. I could see it all right in front of me. The tarmac road was once the trolley line...the trees use to be the Post Exchange Building...I was finally here! Al & Spence walked in right over there...
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:11:58 GMT 8
WOW
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:15:30 GMT 8
After the Middleside station the trolly line continued past the barracks toward Topside right here.
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:31:21 GMT 8
This area is the long lazy rail loop around the Middleside barracks. The station would have been where the "off limits" sign is this side of the white fence. I think the stone wall in the foreground would be the edge of the rail bed. In the Middleside station photo, between the trolley and the post exchange building there is a set of wood planks leveling off the rails for walking across. I think this is the stone wall just on that corner.
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Post by T2 on Jul 16, 2018 7:39:23 GMT 8
I think I have found the last standing verandah support column. I have made physical contact & a mental connection with 1923 and this building and all its history. This may sound weird to some but I can not find a word that describes this. __________ What a great photo, T2, I have been walking the short-cut down from Middleside for years, and I knew of some of the features off the pathway, but hadn't been able to assemble them in my mind. People would do well to study this one more closely! - Exo
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