Corregidor Isl.-Fort Mills – Page 103

Media Category: Corregidor Isl.-Fort Mills

All the information about Corregidor Island, the ex Fort Mills, before, during and after WWII.

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Zf364. This is a 2006 image of the Butterfly concession at the former Aviary at Middleside on Corregidor. The Fort Mills 3 Million Gallon Rain Water Reservoir is behind the Butterfly net. Both the native hooch and the Butterfly net are no longer there.

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Zf363. This is a shot of the former Aviary Administration Residence building on Corregidor from about the location where the last shot of the reservoir was taken.

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Zf236. Lorcha Dock is still in place. It is famous because Gen MacArthur and his companions left here with the PT boats and broke thru the Japanese lines. A stature is here of the Gen, not on this picture. This is one of 5 images shot from right to left at this location.

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Zf350. Just before one reaches the former Aviary building is this, what we call now a shortcut down from Middleside. On this visit it was still usable. I used it a couple of times on this visit. It is concreted that means it was already a walking path during the Army Fort Mills period.

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Zf349. I made a ride turn and look now north at the east edge of the Middleside Parade Ground. Ahead is the office and residence of the former Aviary. The Aviary on Corregidor was big and nice but died for economic reasons. Then, that building was used for other purposes.

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Zf348. We have reached the Middleside plateau; it has at least big tree now in the field and the trees on the west end of the field also have become big. Corregidor Foundation is now unable to cut the grass in this Middleside Parade Ground, before they did but now it looks wild. In this […]

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Zf347. The Youth for Pease Camp has the memorial wall, shown in the two previous images and this is the lower portion of the plaque on that wall. The plaque is now very hard to read and so I got an older copy from my files. And this is only the lower half; I cropped […]

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Zf346. We have reached the Middleside plateau; it has at least big tree now in the field and the trees on the west end of the field also have become big. Corregidor Foundation is now unable to cut the grass in the Middleside Parade Ground, before they did but now it looks wild.

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Zf345. We have reached the Middleside plateau; I consider this area a parade and exercise place. Before the war it certainly was used for the horses, they were in stalls south and next to this field. In 1998 this place was used for a Youth for Pease Camp in connection of the Philippine Centennial Celebration. […]

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Zf344. I just walked past the entrance of the road leading to the Stockade level on Corregidor Island.