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Zo717

Zo717. This is one of 10 images or items at the Col. William (Wild Bill) Massello Memorial at Fort Bliss in El Paso TX. US Army Col William (Wild Bill) Massello (ret.) by a 3 Inch antiaircraft gun in Fort Bliss TX in 1995. This image was provided by John Duresky.

Zo704

Zo704. The memorial to Col. Wild Bill Massello (Hero of Battery Way during the Corregidor Siege) at Fort Bliss, is dedicated to the AAA warriors (Anti-Aircraft Artillery), although during the Corregidor Siege he and his Battery Erie volunteer (60th CAC, AAA) personnel served under the 59th CAC, Coastal Artillery. This image was provided by John Duresky.

Zo703

Zo703. Lt. Col. William Massello is honored by Mayor G. Edward Bradley in Sommerville, Mass., as a survivor of the Corregidor Siege in 1942 and being on a Hell Ship, and POW in Japan. The Boston Sunday Globe got it completely wrong! The Allied personnel on Corregidor, ordered to surrender, DID NOT PARTICIPATE in the Death March on Bataan, they were marched thru Manila by the Imperial Japanese Military who wanted to demonstrate their believe that they were superior to the white race. I have met actual Death March Survivors from the association of the Battling Bastards of Bataan who felt bitter about that mistaken believe that the Corregidor defenders participated in the Death March or were kept in the POW Hell Hole of Camp O’Donnell. This image was provided by John Duresky.

Zo709

Zo709. An image of Battery Way at Middleside on the way to Topside on Corregidor Island, the ex-Fort Mills of the Manila Bay and Subic Bay Harbor Defense Command. Yours truly with a group of visitors from Olongapo to Corregidor 2003.

Zo708

Zo708. An image of Battery Way at Middleside on the way to Topside on Corregidor Island, the ex-Fort Mills of the Manila Bay and Subic Bay Harbor Defense Command. This picture is from fots2 in the Corregidor Forum.

Zo707

Zo707. A 2006 image of Battery Way at Middleside on the way to Topside on Corregidor Island, the ex-Fort Mills of the Manila Bay and Subic Bay Harbor Defense Command.

Zo706

Zo706. The memorial to Col. Wild Bill Massello (Hero of Battery Way during the Corregidor Siege) at Fort Bliss, dedicated to the AAA warriors, although during the Corregidor Siege he and his Battery E (Erie) volunteer (60th AAA CAC) personnel served under the 59th CAC, Coastal Artillery. This image was provided by John Duresky.

Zo705

Zo705. The memorial to Col. Wild Bill Massello (Hero of Battery Way during the Corregidor Siege) at Fort Bliss, dedicated to the AAA warriors, although during the Corregidor Siege he and his Battery Erie volunteer (60th AAA CAC) personnel served under the 59th CAC, Coastal Artillery. This image was provided by John Duresky.

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Z1fots095. This picture is shot from near the west entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel on Corregidor Island but it also shows the place where the Fort Mills Saluting Battery was and after the war it served as the place for the flagpole for the new Corregidor U.S. Command.

Zc543

Zc543. This is the West Magazine of Battery Rock Point in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. This is a 2008-11-08 image showing that at some places on the ground/floor you still can find something interesting.