Corregidor Isl.-Fort Mills – Page 129

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

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Zo926. Battery Wheeler, Gun #2 area, in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay with a Filipino relative of my family. My friends are taking pictures.

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Zo925. Battery Wheeler, Gun #2, in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay with a Filipino relative of my family.

Zo921. Ron Benadero and I at the Japanese Garden of Peace. I see, my little belly has started, 64 years young now and 15 years since retirement from the U.S Navy. I used to be a smoker but was able to quit in 1999; tried to talk Ron into quitting but did not succeed.

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Zo920. Ron Benadero and I at the Carmen Resort boat. I see, my little belly has started, 64 years young now and 15 years since retirement from the U.S Navy.

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Zo919. We are on Corregidor at the Japanese Garden of Peace. Mr. Ron Benadero is checking up on us; he is the senior representative of the Corregidor Foundation Inc. on the island. I consider him a friend.

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Zo918. Relative, Bill (we go back to Viet Nam in 1966), the partner of Scott (hidden) and Scott (we go back to our 2004 retiree days in Pearl Harbor) are waiting for the Carmen Resort boat crew to get ready to take us to Corregidor.

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Zo917. We started here, the north shore of the Manila Bay North channel in front of the Villa Carmen Resort in Cabcaben, at the SE corner of Bataan. We rented one of their boats.

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Zo923. One of the Senior Officer Quarters, Topside on Corregidor, Fort Mills which was used by one of the parachute companies (Parachute Regiment 503) as a head quarter when recapturing Corregidor from the Japanese on the 16th Feb. 1945.

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Zo922. The MacArthur Café also had a souvenir shop, but I forgot now where this was, at the Japanese Peace Garden or Topside near the Corregidor Lighthouse?

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Zo722. On my visit to Corregidor, the 7th Nov. 2016 with some Marine Friends, we noticed the Kwiecinski Couple was honored by three organizations; the couple had intimate relations with. The Kwiecinski couple resided on Corregidor approximately from 2008 to 2015. The Corregidor Foundation INC. (CFI); Filipino-American Memorial Endowment (AMSHAM PHILS.); Sun Cruises INC (SCI). A plaque was placed under the plaque that honored Steve Kwiecinski’ father who manned the last firing mortar at Battery Way on the 6th of May 1942.