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Post by chadhill on Sept 11, 2010 5:27:21 GMT 8
Relics from Topside, 1985. The fuse was detached from the grenade, making it possible to see that it was empty inside and harmless.
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Post by chadhill on Sept 11, 2010 5:59:19 GMT 8
This was actually found near the Navy Radio Intercept Tunnel at Monkey Point, in 1986.
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Post by okla on Sept 11, 2010 8:12:33 GMT 8
Hey Chad....These items are priceless. Wonder if they are from the 1942 or 1945 fighting. Betcha that grenade stems from '42 since such a high percentage of the US grenades were "duds". Laid around QM Warehouses and since 1918 losing their "punch". That Japanese helmet looks as though it suffered some battle damage before the corrosive effect took its' toll. Good stuff. Appreciate you posting these excellent pix. Hope there is much more in the offing. Cheers.
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Post by one50 on Sept 12, 2010 10:42:05 GMT 8
Thanks Chad for sharing. That stuff is way cool. Do you have this stuff and other Corregidor items in Nashville? I'll drive down tonight if you say yes
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Post by chadhill on Sept 12, 2010 11:54:09 GMT 8
Hello one50- sorry, but in 1987 or '88 I turned the grenade, mess plate and some other finds over to the SeaBees that were restoring the museum on Topside. The helmet was very fragile and I left it on Monkey Point.
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Post by chadhill on Sept 12, 2010 12:11:34 GMT 8
one50, what do you make of this? I fished it out of the water just east of North Dock, in 1986. Eric Mailander told me it was a US 81mm mortar round, minus the fins. He had found a number of them on Peleliu. "The American Arsenal" has diagrams of the M56 81mm high-explosive and M57 81mm chemical rounds that look very similar to it. Okla noted that it may be missing the fuse.
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Post by chadhill on Sept 12, 2010 12:41:47 GMT 8
one50, I found this between North Point and East Point in 1986. It was near what I thought was one of Lieutenant Lawrence's 75mm gun positions. Looking thru "The American Arsenal", it could be the projectile portion of several different 75mm rounds. But then again, it kind of looks like the shell portion of a 2.36 inch M6A2 bazooka round. Do you or anybody else have an ID for it? Yep, I can't believe I picked it up, either...
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Post by chadhill on Sept 26, 2010 23:07:54 GMT 8
I found this SW of the west end of Kindley Field, in 1986.
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Post by chadhill on Oct 16, 2010 22:37:35 GMT 8
Not a battlefield relic, but I found this old Life magazine in a used book store in the 1980s. Ironic date to have had MacArthur on the cover. It must have arrived in the mail or at the newstands several days beforehand, while peace was still at hand. What 10 cents could buy in those days...
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Post by okla on Oct 17, 2010 2:07:42 GMT 8
Hey Chad...Believe it not, but I can remember this issue of Life Magazine when it first hit the news stand way back in 1941. Yes, by the date you would think, picking it up today, that it would have all the news of the outbreak of war in the Pacific. This issue had all the PR stuff about the American buildup in the PI,etc. Seems as though there were pics of the Scouts and their American Officers in half tracks,etc in the field in Northern Luzon, Philippine Army troops coming from Mass, gun positions on Corregidor (with background blacked out for security reasons, and all that type stuff. While I am at it I just have to tell you that while attending College on the Korean GI Bill in the late 1950s that I leafed thru every Life published from 1936 (first issue) till 1959 when I finally graduated. Many were the days and nights, when there were few coins in my possession, that I would sit in the University Library thumbing thru these huge bound volumes (not much micro-filming in those days) of every Life Magazine ever published. It was interesting and a very cheap way to pass the time. After all, "all study and no play makes Oklahoma a very dull boy". Cheers
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