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Post by EXO on Oct 19, 2023 10:03:36 GMT 8
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Post by EXO on Oct 17, 2023 15:45:59 GMT 8
This book is now permalinked at my PX PUBLICATIONS website. A full preview is available.
Andrew Lagonick was posted to the Philippine Islands in the era now known as "pre-war". Of no particular skill or accomplishment, he lived the life of an average member of the Coast Artillery, being posted to batteries at Fort Drum. He collected photos of his experiences, and compiled them in an album. I do not know what happended to Andrew, although the photo album contains images from a visit in China, indicating that he may have been returning to the USA prior to the outbreak of the war.
The album survived, and was loaned to me by Steve & Marcia Kwiecinski, who were residing on Corregidor as "token Americans." The album was loaned to them, and I don't know where it is now. I scanned the album as it was then, so that I could remove the original images and scan them individually at a higher resolution. (I have since used the images, many of which were unique, across a number of books - most notably in the LOST & FOUND - Unit Histories of Corregidor and Manila Bay publication.
The book reproduces the photo album as survived the years, containing neither captions, corrections nor commentary. It is 56 pages, with a hard cover, about sixty bucks in hard cover format. If anyone is wanting a Cheap Charlie Edition ( a softcover) contact me and I will look at doing one with a "special thanks" note to you. That's so that when in decades to come, your heirs are going through your heirlooms and find it, they can say about you, "He truly was a cheap Charlie!" (Not really. Anyone who buys any one of these publications is a truly wonderful person.)
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Post by EXO on Oct 6, 2023 6:30:41 GMT 8
Some interesting reading:
SOURCE: The American Way of War, A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy – Russell F. Weigley, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York 1973.
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Post by EXO on Oct 1, 2023 20:40:02 GMT 8
Henry,
It has been a few years now, and the fight against the revisionists continues. Each year the same old misinformations appear on Facebook, and there's just not enough time to challenge them. I am hoping to make arrangements for the continuation of hosting of Battle Of Manila.Org across another decade, as I believe that there need to be voices speaking for those who were there, and have not survived to speak across the years. Manila War Diaries needs to be in a permanent form, it is probably one of the best, articulate and erudite narratives of Manila during the Japanese occupation. EXO
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Post by EXO on Sept 28, 2023 7:35:40 GMT 8
For those eccentric folk who might be interested in the rare and obscure, I have published a book of scans I made of Andrew Lagonick's photo album when I managed to borrow it back in 2013. The book is in Standard portrait format, 8x10 in, 20x25 cm, 56 pages, hard cover, image wrap. US$60. The images aren't new - they were enlarged and enhanced, and feature in the Lost & Found book based on the collections of the Unit Histories of Corregidor. I have set the publisher's preview for the entirety of the book. The link is :NOW RETIRED I don't care if I don't sell any, any more. I've got mine!!
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Post by EXO on Sept 24, 2023 9:37:33 GMT 8
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Post by EXO on Sept 14, 2023 6:26:09 GMT 8
Here's an update on the traffic situation as relates to the bandwidth delivered by all the Corregidor.Org sites.
SEP 2023 - 21.76 GB - down 1%. Firewall mitigated events during October are up 123%. Canada indicates 846 events! AUG 2023 - 23.14 GB - insignificant change in comparison with the previous month. JUL 2023 - 23.6 GB - down 2% traffic since June MAY 2023 - 22.91 GB - up 22% since April APR 2023 - 16.85 GB - down by 21% since March 2023. Firewall events are up 76%. MAR 2023 - 19.34 GB - down slightly; 620 firewall "events". 317 from the US, 179 from Russia. FEB 2023 - 20.69 GB - traffic is down by 5% - US traffic is eight times that of the Philippines JAN 2023 - 23.39 GB - up by 3% - with 524 Firewall mitigation events NOV 2022 - 20.94 GB OCT 2022 - 20.01 GB - down 7.3% since September JUL 2022 - 21.03 GB - up 10.7% since June MAY 2022 - 19.09 GB - down 11.4% since April FEB 2022 - 22.25 GB DEC 2021 - 24.5 GB NOV 2021 - 21.58 GB OCT 2021 - 18.74 GB SEP 2021 - 23.81 GB AUG 2021 - 22.99 GB JUL 2021 - 20.15 GB MAY 2021 - 21.63 GB APR 2021- 23.69 GB MAR 2021 - 27.92 GB FEB 2022 - 26.6 GB DEC 2021 - 28.42 GB NOV 2021 - 15.79 GB OCT 2021 - 9.48 GB (part month only)
The figures confirm some things which are obvious, and others which are less so. Most traffic is delivered to the USA (obvious), and the second-most significant customer is Singapore, then followed by Australia. The Philippines is the fourth in the list.
Until recently (November 2023) the USA has been generally responsible for more than twice the Firewall mitigated events than is Russia. In October 2023, there was a spike of events originating in Canada, recording 846. Next was Russia (146) and then the USA (143).
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Post by EXO on Sept 13, 2023 10:11:14 GMT 8
Well, I finally came across the wreck salvage info that I'd been looking for Snake, That sure is upsetting news. Looks like the "Powers That Be" decided to have at the wreck of the SS Corregidor very much on the quiet. Given that the age of the iron predates 1945, that would have earned a pretty peso. They hid it in plain sight. Stuff war graves, stuff the relatives is the attitude in Manila. Stuff the earnings in our own pockets, more like. EXO
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Post by EXO on Aug 17, 2023 7:30:06 GMT 8
OPEN DISCUSSION Perhaps I am sailing the doldrums again, in the sense of traversing those regions of the ocean near the equator, characterized by calms, light winds, or squalls. Except of the website kind. I am become of the view that websites are a product of their times - which is to say, a product of ten, maybe twenty years ago. Like the old gramophone - sure it works still, but its role and purpose, even its utility has been eclipsed. New technologies have been developed, and the nature and purpose of the use of the web has been changing. Here's something that caught my eye: Corregidor.Org started very much in the Web 1.0 pattern. It was a read-only compendium of knowledge and experience, with a strong History bent. Some of it progressed to Web 2.0 ( such as via this forum's sharing content). None of it has made it into Web 3.0. Behind the scenes, I am embarking upon discussing the terms upon which I am going to more closely associate BattleofManila.Org with MacArthur Memorial. The website has much information which i want to be preserved. If this works out satisfactorily, I will consider preserving Concretebattleship.Org in a similar vein. Rinse and repeat, I suppose. I recall that several years ago, perhaps a decade, I had been contemplating a closer relationship with a sub-library of the Ayala Museum. It was in the context of gathering together a collection of images (much like an on-line photo library) of the WWII In The Philippines. The concept collapsed, for reasons I need not go into. But I have not given up on the concept that there has to be a community focus for this knowledge we've collected.
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Post by EXO on Aug 8, 2023 14:58:18 GMT 8
Kathryna, That's a really nice rendering. We have a fascination with the SS Corregidor here, and I have created a book which gathers the facts - and some speculation - about it in one place. Have a look here: paulwhitman.com/details/ssCorregidor/ssCorregidor.htmlI do not wish to nitpick your drawings (for they are a work of artistry), the night view perhaps has too many lights showing on the coast and on Corregidor itself. indeed, I might envisage the scene as being reversed, with the vessel travelling from left to right. I might be able to find a photo of Corregidor taken from that direction. Write me at paul at whitman dot com dot au
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