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Battery Cheney incl. AA Guns

Battery Cheney 12. Corregidor – Battery Cheney, this is a nice aerial pic. We don’t know when it was shot but for many years the Corregidor Foundation Inc (CFI) kept it clean and clear like this. The picture came from this website, Traces of War, and it is credited to: PH1 David C. Maclean, U.S. […]

Corregidor Island, Aerial Photos, 2007 or Earlier

Corregidor Island, aerial, AJM 10. West End of Corregidor Island and some of the Corregidor Topside, ex Fort Mills structures. ————————– My friend John Moffitt (fots2) posted these aerial pictures of Corregidor in the Corregidor Forum in 2007. But his photo sharing account is no longer available and the link to these pictures disappeared! There […]

Fort Hughes, Caballo Island, Searchlight No. 11, from CDSG.

With Bataan under a smoke cloud, the relationships between Caballo, Corregidor, the North Channel and Bataan can be seen in this fine shot. The years haven’t been kind to the original slide, but we felt that the photo was sufficiently interesting to start the pulse of any dyed in the wool Corregidoros. Picture is from […]

Ex Fort Drum – El Fraile Island, from John Moffitt

This presentation, pictures and texts, is shared from John Moffitt who posted this material in the Facebook page-Corregidor Historical Society, click here: A trip to this fort today is a bit risky for a few reasons. First, if Manila Bay is not calm, getting on and off the fort from a banca can be […]

Layac Monument & Area 2010 from John Moffitt

This is the WWII First Line of Defense Monument at the Layac Junction in Dinalupihan, Bataan. ——————————————- Last week I joined Karl for two days of hiking in the area of the 1942 Bataan “First Line of Defense.”, 30th of June 2010. According to my GPS, we walked a total distance of slightly over 19km. […]

The Battling Bastards of Bataan Poem

The Battling Bastards of Bataan Poem Camp O’Donnell Memorial Monument ———————— –Two current patriots got together and established this URL, click here: –Google AI Overview: Written in 1942 by United Press war correspondent Frank Hewlett, the famous sardonic verse captures the desperate, abandoned feelings of the starving US and Filipino soldiers who fought without proper […]

Philippine Coast Artillery Training – Ft. Wint

Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #5pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island. This is Gun #1 of Battery Hall, a 2006 pic from the www. —————————– Although Coast Artillery and Coast Defense was mostly identified to the US 59th and 60th CA regiments and the Philippine Scout’s 91st and 92nd CA regiments, there was a Philippine Army coast […]

Karl has returned, back in Subic Bay now!

Picture 01, drove by Mt. Mayon. —————————————– Karl has returned, back in Subic Bay now! Every May we make a family trip to the San Bernardino Strait, the annual Fiesta in my wife’s village happens then. I have posted 5 albums into my Facebook page: “Bon Ot Big, Matnog”. The URL is: https://www.facebook.com/Welteke/ Here are […]

Guiuan as a Naval and Air Base in WWII

Guiuan as a Naval and Air Base in WWII By Ricardo Trota Jose This is an article published in the Journal of History Vol. LXIX {January-Dece4mber 2023}: 50-79 2023 The Philipp0ine National Historical Society, Inc. The article has 15 pages which include 17 images and you can read it with this URL, but you got […]

Guiuan, Naval Supply Depot 1945

06 Guiuan USN Base 1945 —————————————————– This place is full of history and that is why I like to go there. I shot these pictures in 2024. Google AI Overview During World War II, Guiuan in Eastern Samar served as a massive US Naval Base (Base 3149) and a critical naval supply depot, established in late […]