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Post by batteryboy on Mar 3, 2010 7:49:54 GMT 8
Here's my little contribution:  BC of Grubbs, takn at the same time as the earlier posting of Fots  In 2005. The BC took a direct hits from Japanese 150mm and 240mm from Bataan during the 1942 siege.  Rear emplacement of Battery Grubbs under consruction  In 2005  Battery Morrison in during the inspection for the Case report  In 2002, during my own inspection ...more later |
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Post by batteryboy on Mar 3, 2010 7:58:44 GMT 8
Let's visit the other islands: 1) Fort Hughes  Battery Woodruff on a live practice shoots of its 14-inch DC Gun  Silent in 2000 2) Fort Frank, Carabao Island  Battery Corfton, another 14-inch DC gun at Fort Frank in 1945 during the retaking  How it looks lie in the early 2000s. The disappearing gun has totaly disappeared.   Battery Hoyle, 3-inch RF gun at Fort Frank, Carabao Island  Batteryboy in the same location in 2002  |
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Post by okla on Mar 3, 2010 8:49:39 GMT 8
Hey Batts....You ain't exactly a slouch in the "before and after, now and then" presentations yourself. I have long appreciated your battle map contributions pertaining to the Bataan campaign. This website is blessed to have people like you, Fots, Phantom, Mapmaster, EXO, Vic and others who continually keep us folks who will never trod Corregidor and Bataan fueled with, almost daily, information. Is this a great country or what?  ? |
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Post by batteryboy on Mar 3, 2010 9:07:50 GMT 8
Hi Okla,
I already posted my reply on Kingston and Skipper Hill
Cheers and more later..
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Post by fots2 on Mar 3, 2010 14:28:50 GMT 8
Great photos there batteryboy. I have never seen some of them before. Hey okla, this topic could last forever. Time to feed the fix. I’ll continue with the big guns. Battery Hearn 1941  Nippon banzai, 1942  1945   |
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Post by fots2 on Mar 3, 2010 14:32:36 GMT 8
Battery Smith 1941  Undated but obviously pre war.  Undated but obviously pre war. Note the underground magazine entrance to the left.  Japanese soldiers. Undated but I will guess at 1942.  1945  
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Post by batteryboy on Mar 3, 2010 23:56:00 GMT 8
A break from the big guns and some obscure place:  North Mortar station just after construction.  How it looks after all these years.  The Shinyo Boat tunnels  In 1999  The water desalination plant at Fort Frank, Carabao Island  Photo taken in 1998 more obscure photos and locations later. |
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Post by okla on Mar 4, 2010 7:57:16 GMT 8
Hey Fots...I ask for "now and then" big gun pics and they appear almost instantaneously. I feel like a kid turned loose in the candy store. Really great stuff. Thanks again Mister Fots. You and Battery are really on a roll. I await more of this "feeding of the Corregidor addiction" with nervous anticipation.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2010 11:31:21 GMT 8
Fots, as I live and breathe. You really have to show your pictures to a book publisher In all sincerity, you've got a best seller on your hands here. Don't waste the opportunity, I beg you!
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Post by fots2 on Mar 4, 2010 22:00:02 GMT 8
Thanks for the comments gents but most of those old photos have been acquired from numerous hours of surfing on the internet to collect whatever I can. I have no idea where most of them came from so there would be “ownership” or “copywrite” issues. As for my photos I post them in a large size with no watermarks. There is always the possibility that someone will try to profit from them (without asking me) but there is really a very limited market for such photos. I prefer to post photos that are clearly visible for anyone with similar interests like you guys. Your ideas and comments also help me for ideas and help correct any errors in text that I might have. This insanity started from me trying to understand more about what I see today. How things looked years ago and how it was used is very interesting to me. P.S. batteryboy, Phantom and I were at the North Mortar station three weeks ago. Interesting spot there. We also found two of the three Machinegun Tower bases there that are shown on the 1936 map. The third one is somewhere is a nasty mess of bamboo and thorny vines. Ok, a few more for today. BATTERY MONJABattery Monja can be noted as the only battery on Corregidor that the US did not recapture. Unknown to everyone there immediately after the war, 20 Japanese soldiers held out in that battery until January 1st, 1946.  (Photo courtesy of batteryboy)  The Japanese soldiers who surrendered January 1st, 1946 (Photo courtesy of batteryboy) Even today, this is by far the most inaccessible battery on Corregidor. The first gun pictured here was a 155mm casemated gun with a tunnel and magazine behind it. These photos always remind me of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall gun emplacements.    Today the gun is gone and two of the tunnel entrances are collapsed. The tunnel and magazines can still be visited via the casemate entrance.    At a later date, a second 155mm GPF gun was added and sat on a Panama mount. This mount was situated between two steep slopes with the casemate nearby on one side and Wheeler Point on the other side.   The cut in the ridge where the Panama mount is located has collapsed or eroded so that only a small rounded corner of the mount is still visible. |
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