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Zo609

Zo609. Three of the 4 big water tanks just east of the Corregidor Lighthouse.

Zo608. This is Skipper Hill at Corregidor Bottomside, we are looking west. Those concrete steps are still there. It looks like the Army rigged a U. S. Flag on this hill. In earlier history Fort Mills had a saluting battery there.

Zo607

Zo607. The webpage says this is the Corregidor North-dock, it must be the Lorcha-dock.

Zo615

Zo615. This is a scene of Filipinos lined up for chow. In 1945 in many areas the Filipinos were starving under the Imperial Japanese occupation. Sgt. Berger has several pictures like this one in his collection but it could not have been on Corregidor. All the civilians were evacuated in 1941 and were never brought back.

Zo614

Zo614. This is Sgt. Russel A. Berger who shot or collected these pictures; his daughter made them available in the above URL. I drove those 6X a few times myself.

Zo617

Zo617. The solar lights of the Eternal Flame are fully operational. Photo, curtesy of CFI, it is a March 2020 image, I believe.

Zo618

Zo618. The solar lights of the Eternal Flame are fully operational. Photo, curtesy of CFI, it is a March 2020 image, I believe.

Zo603

Zo603. A view of Malinta Hill on Corregidor, perhaps from the South-dock, used by the Navy in WWII. This is the south end, San Jose Point of Malinta Hill.

Zo602

Zo602. A view of the Corregidor Bottomside Northshore, with the Army Mine-dock in center and behind it is the Lorcha -dock where Gen MacArthur departed from in 1945 on orders from President Roosevelt.

Zo601

Zo601. The Head Quarters tent and staff of the 673 Replacement Company.