Zo583

Zo583. This is one of 11 images and story presented in this Corregidor.proboard.com forum page. The story also includes that the Imperial Japanese occupiers forced U.S. Sailors, they held as POWs to dive to recover the silver. This is the URL: http://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1057/manila-bay-silver-56k-folks

Zo580

Zo580. A battery of Japanese 150mm Type 89 guns at located somewhere between the Lamao – Cabcaben area in 1942. This picture was provided by Tony Feredo, aka batteryboy. He posted 9 images in this thread: https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/226/japanese-gun-batteries-on-bataan

Zo582

Zo582. Japanese setting up a 240mm Type 45 Howitzer before the Corregidor bombardment, crew men are handling some of the projectiles. This picture was provided by Tony Feredo, aka batteryboy. He posted 9 images in this thread: https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/226/japanese-gun-batteries-on-bataan

Zo581

Zo581. Japanese setting up a 240mm Type 45 Howitzer before the Corregidor bombardment, crew men are dragging the gun shield. This picture was provided by Tony Feredo, aka batteryboy. He posted 9 images in this thread: https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/226/japanese-gun-batteries-on-bataan

Zo577

Zo577. 1942 my family farm in Tempel, now Templewo, established in the 1200s by the Knights of the Templars.
Left my uncle Helmut Voje, joined the Wehrmacht 1938, started in the cavalry, served thru the whole war, got killed on the 10th of May 1945 on his march with his troops from east to west thru the now Czech Republic. He is listed on a plaque in a German War Cemetery in the Czech Republic. His wife still lives, and is now 99 years young.
He is holding me, just a few months old. My family was able to flee before the Red Army arrived on the 30th of Jan. 1945. I grew up near Hamburg, emigrated to the U.S.Dec.1959, served in the U.S. Navy 1960-91. I retired in the Philippines outside the former Naval Base Subic Bay.
Right is my father, Karl Welteke, born 1900. During the war he managed our farm and others. In 1944 he was drafted into the Volkssturm and fell in the Battle of Berlin. The last we heard from him was on the 17th April 1945.

Zo579

Flüchtlingtreck im Raum von Braunsberg (Ostpreußen),
1945

Zo578

Zo578. A google Earth image of the area of the former German East Brandenburg province. My village Tempel is about 60 km east of Frankfurt on the Oder River but I don’t remember it or my father.
My memory starts in the spring of 1945 and in North Germany. I remember watching the nightly bomber streams and their flares, which the Germans called Christmas trees. Going into the cellar when fighter bombers were in the area. And one day the place was full of British tanks and they looked awfully big to a 3-year-old child.

Zo576

Zo576. Lieutenant Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander. An earlier or later issue of the book had this book cover. It came from this URL and had this description:

After the fall of the Philippines in 1942 – and after leading the last horse cavalry charge in U.S. history – Lieutenant Ed Ramsey refused to surrender. Instead, he joined the Filipino resistance and rose to command more than 40,000 guerrillas. The Japanese put the elusive American leader at first place on their death list. Rejecting the opportunity to escape, Ramsey withstood unimaginable fear, pain, and loss for three long years. Lieutenant Ramsey’s War chronicles a remarkable true story of courage and perseverance.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574880527/thephilippinemar/

Zo575

Zo575. Lieutenant Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander (Memories of War). Vic is or was the web master of the pinoyhistory.proboards.com and wrote the thread above; he said this about the picture Zo576:
I recently wrote about Ramsey and the Charge at Morong by 26th Cavalry Philippine Scouts. Worth noting that this was the last charge by a United States Cavalry Unit (The Scouts were US Army, not Commonwealth).
https://pinoyhistory.proboards.com/thread/299
My copy of the book had a different cover. I think it’s the older printing. I was able to have mine signed by Ed Ramsey by mailing it to him. Philip on the other hand got lucky and actually got to meet the hero in person and with his pictures taken to boot.

Zo574

Zo574.The Morong church, shot by Vic, on our visit to Morong in 2009; Vic said this in this thread:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/757/morong-bataan-visit
Finally visited Morong, Bataan with Karl. I promised Col. Ed Ramsey back in 2009 that on my next trip to the Philippines I’d visit Morong and take pictures for him. After walking around in Layac (First line of defense, into Bataan 7th Jan. 1942), we took the new highway to Subic and went down Bataan’s west road down to Morong.