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Post by chadhill on Nov 15, 2010 4:24:27 GMT 8
US Army photo dated 16 SEP 1945
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Post by chadhill on Dec 1, 2010 6:16:37 GMT 8
From the looks of the projectiles and comparing them to the ones earlier in this thread, I'm guessing this undated photo may have been taken at the Geary or Way magazine. I'm not sure where this is. But note the same two-tone wall paint, similar overhead light bulbs, clothes, and rail tracks. Not sure where this post-surrender photo was taken, either, with a Japanese soldier looking on (Philippine Expeditionary Force, 1943).
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Post by okla on Dec 1, 2010 7:59:25 GMT 8
Hey Chad....I betcha the undated American photos were part of an extensive photo spread done by Life Magazine in the summer of 1941. If memory serves they devoted a major portion of at least one and possibly two issues on the defense buildup in the Pacific Now whether the pics were taken that summer or were drawn from the files of the US Army Public Information Office can't be determined by just viewing the photos. I betcha they were contemporary, though. I just seem to remember us kids being shown this magazine during "current events" period in class. It was in elementary school, no less. Can you imagine exposing kiddies, nowadays, to something as relevant as a possible approaching war? Somewhere on this forum many of those pix from that Life Magazine layout were posted sometime in the past. I don't have sense enough to know how to bring them up for viewing. They might be over on Vic's Philippine Scout Website. He always has excellent stuff that I enjoy.
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Post by batteryboy on Dec 2, 2010 4:17:34 GMT 8
The photo with the bunks hanging by the walls were most likely at Fort Frank, Carabao Island. probable location is the tunnel to Battery Greer but the camera is looking towards the exit.
The photo with the Japanese soldier maybe in one of the DC batteries judging from the ammunition cart.
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Post by wwalker on Jun 16, 2011 1:19:42 GMT 8
Does anyone know the dates of the photo's taken of the men drilling at Battery Geary?? Also I keep hearing about the Life Magazine articles that featured some things about Corregidor, does anyone know what issues these appeared it?? Thanks.
Will Walker corregidor.research@gmail.com
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Post by okla on Jun 16, 2011 5:32:04 GMT 8
Hey WWalker....I don't know if the the information I posted in reply #12 (above) is the Life Magazine you are referring to or not, but I betcha it is. If my failing memory serves, that issue was published sometime in July 1941. If not July, I am almost positive that it was during that fatal summer. There is a famous photo of MacArthur on the cover of this magazine.
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Post by wwalker on Jun 17, 2011 2:31:23 GMT 8
Thanks for the info Okla. I've been looking on ebay since your reply and have found a July 1941 issue with General Patton on the cover. It also has printed on the cover "Defense Issue". Is this the one? The one that I'm most interested in I believe has photos that were taken by Carl Mydans who was on Corregidor.
Will
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2011 3:46:17 GMT 8
Yup you are right and its also one questions that lingers in my mind that how come we cant find any spare mortar tubes. The life expectancy of mortar barrels could even be more. Why? because the muzzle velocity to fire the shell from a mortar is not as much like the long range seacoast guns. FWIW, My guess is that the penny pinching US Congress in the 1920's and 30's wasn't interested in seeing that our "Castle Keep in the Pacific" was well maintained. Remember, many of the gun batteries and instalations on the fortified islands of Manila Bay were mothballed during this time. I'm sure the Watervliet Arsenal would have welcomed the orders for more mortar barrels and liners for the guns, but the money was never appropriated by Congress.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2011 3:52:30 GMT 8
Likewise those 240mm howitzers meant for Corregidor that was turned around in the mid-Pacific and sent to Hawaii instead because of a fortifications treaty with Japan. Those howitzers could have really been used effectively against their Japanese counterparts during the long siege in 1942, rather than sitting on Oahu where they never fired a shot in anger.
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Post by okla on Jun 17, 2011 6:00:04 GMT 8
Hey ww....I remember the Life issue with Genl Patton and yes it appeared during the summer of 1941 and was one of the ones I mentioned. The issue with MacArthur, I could have sworn was also during that long ago summer. Maybe it was published later that summer or autumn when things were really heating up with Japan. It might have come out just prior to December. I do remember it having pics of Corregidor taken from the South China Sea, a photo of either Battery Smith or Hearn with the background blotted out for security reasons, a photo of men working in a battery plotting room, a pic of the interior of one of the "unfinished" tunnels on the "Rock". There were others of Clark Field Bomber Revetments, again with the backdrop blacked out. I am 79 years old next month so you must realize that my gray matter might be slipping up a bit on me on the exact month. It might very well be that the issue of Life in question was closer to the actual outbreak of war in the Pacific. Cheers.
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