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Post by beirutvet on Apr 4, 2017 0:36:55 GMT 8
Toss up question;
Can anyone give me the definitive dimensions of Malinta Tunnel? I was always under the impression that it was 832' long, 18' tall and 24' wide.
The reason that I ask this is that I recently went on a book buying jag and picked up about a dozen books on Corregidor from Amazon. I got incredible buys as the whole bunch ran me less than $50.00. One book was only $0.44. I paid more in shipping than the cost of the books for most of them.
But I have now come across 4 of these books that list the length of Malinta tunnel as 1400'. As best as I can figure out, they are getting that figure from Wainwright's book. I can see how that inaccuracy might persist in that they are citing General Jonathan M Wainwright who would undoubtedly qualify as creditable source. Most of these books were written before the age of the internet and would have to rely on source documents, writings, interviews, etc. Can anyone confirm that this is the source of the misinformation? Has anyone else come across this discrepancy in other publications?
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Post by piercebennett on Apr 4, 2017 7:14:17 GMT 8
The RCW for Malinta Tunnel has the length at 831.6 feet. If you add this length plus the length of the main tunnel for the north complex, you get closer to 1400, (1363 feet) but that could just be a coincidence.
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