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Post by fots2 on Nov 16, 2010 22:13:34 GMT 8
Here are a few more “Then & Now” photos for everyone.  Barrio San Jose on Bottomside south.  Bottomside south view in 2009. Trees to my left block the same perspective as the first photo.  Battery Geary 12-inch mortar. (photo courtesy chadhill).  Similar view in 2010.  View of the mortar from where the soldier was standing taken in 2009.  Barracks somewhere on Corregidor.  This is not an exact match but represents what some of the (still standing) barracks look like today.  Here is a 1945 photo of the battle damaged lighthouse area. Note the three story building in the middle. It is designated on maps as the “Fort Signal Station”.  Close-up of the Fort Signal Station.  This undated photo shows lots of trees around so it would have been taken years after the war ended.  Here is a similar photo dated 1953.  Whenever this structure was rebuilt, two more floors were added. (2003 photo).  2010 photo showing the structure today. It is still used for communications. Various antennas are mounted on top including a microwave link facing Bataan.  View from the current lighthouse.  The 92nd Garage area on Tailside which was the site of the POW camp in 1942. The photo is undated but the buildings are damaged so it was definitely wartime.  Another undated photo shows the buildings almost completely destroyed.  2007 photo of the same area.  1962 aerial photo of the Middleside Barracks. (photo courtesy of chadhill)  Similar view taken in 2007. |
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Post by okla on Nov 17, 2010 0:37:10 GMT 8
Hey Fots....Love the "now and then" photos you have so kindly posted. I could view these kind of pix "twenty five" hours a day, "eight" days a week, so keep them coming. I, especially, got a kick out of the interior, peacetime photo of the enlisted men's barracks. Brought back some memories for me. Wonder if those "racks" could bounce a two bit piece six inches in the air for the Inspecting Officer. A couple of them look as if they could and there are a couple that look like they have a "sag" in the center that wouldn't pass muster if the Inspecting Officer was "chicken". Would you believe it, if I told you that wife insists that I put "Hospital Corners" on our bed when she makes it. Says that I "do" neater corners than she does. I try and try to teach her how to do it, but to no avail. Methinks, she is "dogging it" on me, but I do make 'em pretty "tight", if I say so myself. Hard to forget ones' training even if it has been 60 years ago. Thanks again for your latest "goodies". Cheers.
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Post by fots2 on Nov 17, 2010 21:56:52 GMT 8
Hi okla. You can show that photo to your wife so she sees a sample of what you went through. It seems those habits last a lifetime.
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Post by chadhill on Nov 19, 2010 10:23:17 GMT 8
Wow Fots, what great Then-and-Now's. Here are more 92nd garage area comparisons: Undated wartime photo (courtesy fots2). The small buildings to the right of the hangars are shown in a rough 1936 map copy I obtained from a US SeaBee restoring the Topside Memorial in 1987. This is the first photo I have seen of them.  May, 1942 photo showing thousands of bivouacked POWs. "Philippine Expeditionary Force", 1943:  May, 1942 photo. "Philippine Expeditionary Force", 1943:  Undated wartime photo (courtesy fots2):  1985. I've heard that a small number of POWs were held long past 1942 on Corregidor (and were eventually killed, or died in captivity). Does that explain the smaller compound in the next two photos and the one above?  1986. I think that the A-Frame ruins were not visible in the above photo because of the angle and because of the trees:  Seaplane ramp, 1987:  |
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Post by fots2 on Nov 19, 2010 14:26:14 GMT 8
Hi Chad,
There were four buildings to the left in those old photos. It is difficult to distinguish them individually.
From bottom left counting clockwise the map labeled them as:
620 - Garage & Repair Shop, 92nd C.A. (P.S.)
619 - Garage & Repair Shop, 92nd C.A. (P.S.)
621 - Truck Garage 92nd C.A. (P.S.)
622 - Motor Test and Pump House
(what were they pumping???)
Good photos you posted from the 80s. I assume all the structures were removed when the resort/casino was built. I don't know the exact date that happened.
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Post by okla on Nov 19, 2010 22:32:57 GMT 8
Hey Chad....Excellent stuff, as per usual. I always enjoy your contributions. All I can do is "kibitz".
Fots....The very idea of a Casino located on Corregidor and especially where the POWs endured so much suffering is an atrocity in itself. I can't imagine what the folks responsible for this abomination were thinking. I am most pleased that the whole endeavor went down the latrine. There are a few other objects (we have discussed this earlier) that I think are in "bad taste" or "out of place" but a Casino located adjacent to the 92nd Garage Area is totally inappropriate, methinks. Cheers.
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Post by chadhill on Nov 20, 2010 9:43:38 GMT 8
Fots, thank you for the info on those buildings. Those two old 92nd garage photos that you posted I have never seen before. Please keep them coming!
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Post by chadhill on Nov 21, 2010 11:01:35 GMT 8
Postcard photo, date unknown.  |
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Post by fots2 on Nov 21, 2010 18:17:55 GMT 8
Hi Chad, Wow, great photo. The Corregidor Inn has not been built yet. No casino/resort either. Even the Pacific War Memorial on Topside does not appear to be there. A few more “Then” 92nd Garage photos for you.  From Malinta Hill looking east. At the top left of the photo you can also see two of the barracks for the 92nd C.A. Philippine Scouts. (Paul Cornwallis photo taken either 1940 or 1941).  Zoomed in view of the previous photo. (Paul Cornwallis photo taken either 1940 or 1941).  Closer view of the left side building with the barracks up on the hill. (undated)  This may or may not be one of the buildings at the 92nd Garage area. The construction is similar to the right side building plus I see what may be the cliffs above the Malinta South Shore road at the top of the photo. Perhaps other buildings are not constructed yet. (dated January, 1922). |
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Post by The Phantom on Nov 21, 2010 20:46:41 GMT 8
Some interesting photo's guys!
Sure tell a story.
Note in the picture posted by fots, after the postcard, the stairway going to 92nd Garage area below from the 92nd's Barracks above on the hill, to the East of 92nd Garage area.
It appears as a thin line going into the trees and coming out below.
Fots and I were able to find a still existing portion of sidewalk, and some steps on the hillside, above the road, that exited then and now, and the area where the buildings appear in the picture.
If I'm not mistaken there were 2 sidewalks meeting in the trees there.
We came down the hill from above which was no easy undertaking.
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