Remembering HAROLD J DUNCAN
Jun 22, 2018 7:01:12 GMT 8
Karl Welteke, JohnEakin, and 1 more like this
Post by EXO on Jun 22, 2018 7:01:12 GMT 8
Zo407. The grave of Harold J. Duncan from the EXO, the webmaster of the forum and the webpages Corregidor.org.
Note from Karl: This picture was restored, this 3rd of April 2020.
So far as I have ever been able to tell, the people who run Corregidor have never shown any interest in researching the many aspects of the island's own history. Sure there's a museum, but that is largely thanks to Capt. Daniel Howell, for years the self-described "token American" on the Island. I suppose that's only to be expected from enterprises whose only interest is commercial, and, being thus motivated by money, fail to see that Corregidor should be a National Park in its entirety. Not that South Beach (formerly designated "Black Beach") often springs to mind. Yesterday, I was exploring the depths of my filing cabinet, you know, those depths to where files fall below the file holders, where they get lost for years.
This, then, is dated 16 May 2011:
Mr. Whitman,
Re: Taro Leaf, Vol. 65, Issue No. 2
Your request for 34th men killed on Corregidor:
I'm Bill Vickers, Radio Man for Col. Postelwaite. Harold Duncan was the second radio man. Both of us were in the first landing craft. The Col.told me to follow him -Duncan went to the right after landing. When I hit the beach I hit the dirt behind the Col., my hand was inches from a land mine. Harold Duncan hit a land mine and blew up.
I wrote Harold's family in New Jersey about Harold but never got a reply. He was a good person, and too young to die.
Bill Vickers, Staff Sgt, 3rd Bat.,Hq. Co., 24th Infantry Div.
Hope this helps.
Re: Taro Leaf, Vol. 65, Issue No. 2
Your request for 34th men killed on Corregidor:
I'm Bill Vickers, Radio Man for Col. Postelwaite. Harold Duncan was the second radio man. Both of us were in the first landing craft. The Col.told me to follow him -Duncan went to the right after landing. When I hit the beach I hit the dirt behind the Col., my hand was inches from a land mine. Harold Duncan hit a land mine and blew up.
I wrote Harold's family in New Jersey about Harold but never got a reply. He was a good person, and too young to die.
Bill Vickers, Staff Sgt, 3rd Bat.,Hq. Co., 24th Infantry Div.
Hope this helps.
There is no memorial for those others who died during the course of the Corregidor operation. I believe that this is the only list of those "forgotten men" of the Corregidor Operation, and would be pleased to be proven wrong. Sadly, there are more of them than you'd realize. Harold J. Duncan's individual memorial page is here.
