Media Category: Central Luzon
This Central Luzon category will encompass all the provinces of this Central Luzon Region
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Zf153. V524. (02 161213 Gen). Romulo near US Embassy.1. This stature interested me very much; Carlos Romulo played important roles in the Philippine and US History. This monument was worked on before and I wanted to know the present condition. It is located pretty much in front of the US Embassy.
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Zf139
Zf139.-High resolution image of Filipinos destroying a bridge in 1942 during their retreat into Bataan in WWII. Picture is provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. They bought it in the internet. They were told that the picture was somewhere in the 20 (or 10) volume collection of the “Pictorial History of […]
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Zf140
Zf140.- High resolution image of the Fleet Waiting Room in the Olongapo Naval Station in the Philippines; view 1. This is a very unique image of the Olongapo U.S. Naval Port; it is pre-war but was published in a post war collection of the “Pictorial History of Second World War”. The bottom part of the […]
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Zf013.-1941 12 31 -1941 8 10 ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH Fort Wint is on map. The Philippines-Strategy of their Defense! This picture was provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team.
The members of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman Magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
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Zf016
Zf016- Asiatic Fleet steaming past Corregidor; this is the description on back of the previous picture and they got it wrong (Corregidor is the left one). This picture was provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. John Duresky wrote this when sending these pictures to me: “Trying to collect original wire-photos of some of the earliest shots used in papers at the start of the war. Original photo much better than what got printed here, can actually count the smokestacks now.
Incidentally, the description of the Asiatic fleet in the attached August 1941 paper had to be a real morale booster”.
John
The members of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman Magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
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Zf015
Zf015- Asiatic Fleet steaming past Corregidor. This picture was provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. John Duresky wrote this when sending these pictures to me: “Trying to collect original wire-photos of some of the earliest shots used in papers at the start of the war. Original photo much better than what got printed here, can actually count the smokestacks now.
Incidentally, the description of the Asiatic fleet in the attached August 1941 paper had to be a real morale booster”.
John
The members of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman Magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
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Zf014
Zf014-1941 12 31 PITTSFIELD MA BERKSHIRE EAGLE Asiatic Fleet steaming past Corregidor. On the picture they wrongly labeled Caballo Island (Ft. Hughes) Corregidor Island; Corregidor is the left one! This picture was provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team.
The members of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman Magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
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Zf011
Zf011. Description on back of the previous image. Fort San Felipe on Cavite from a US News Paper dated 3rd Jan. 1942. This picture was provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team
The people of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman Magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
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