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PT127
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Posted on: Aug 21, 2011 - 1:52pm
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hi
does anyone have a reference to the location of the pt boat bases in the philippines?
thanks.
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Aug 21, 2011 - 9:37pm
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Hi Mark!
Love your website. You have a lot of fantastic photos on there. This website we are on has a section of information that lists all the bases in the Phillipines. Look here
http://www.ptboats.org/20-04-05-ptbases-005.html
I hope this helps Jerry
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PT127
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Posted on: Aug 22, 2011 - 1:19pm
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thanks jeff and jerry. those links help.
i'll be in the philippines this coming winter and plan to visit the locations where my father was stationed. i know ormoc was one. i'm searching on the web trying to find an aerial photo of ormoc from the war that might show the locations of the docs and onshore facilities.
i'm also hoping, against the odds, to try and find the location of where ron 12's boats were burned at the end of the war. from photos my dad brought back it seems to have been fairly closes to shore. if its not too deep it might be worth trying to dive and find some of the remains.
if anyone has any notion regarding all this i'd love to hear it.
thanks,
-mark
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newsnerd99
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Posted on: Aug 23, 2011 - 5:19am
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I don't have anything specific to help you Mark, just the landmark-less photos of other RON's boats burning on my grandfather's site:
http://www.pistolpackinmama.net/pb/wp_bc42a153/wp_bc42a153.html
On that page, one vet's written account mentions the "Manicani River" as a place where a bunch of boats were towed - all I can find is the Manicani Island, across the lagoon (I think?) from where Base 17 was.
And, just because we like pictures:
Grandson of James J Stanton
RON 15 PT 209 and RON 23 PT 243
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newsnerd99
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Posted on: Aug 23, 2011 - 5:53am
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Hey Jeff - thanks for that link BTW. I hadn't found any good information to place the "peg" on the PistolPackinMama Google map for the advance base at Mangarin Bay on Mindoro - now I do!
http://www.pistolpackinmama.net/pb/wp_7f723a64/wp_7f723a64.html
Grandson of James J Stanton
RON 15 PT 209 and RON 23 PT 243
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Aug 23, 2011 - 7:41am
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Cool NN, and nice job on the map! And thank you for the (saddening) images. I bet Frank has dreams of a time machine and an "in" with the Navy Department. Heck, me too. But I guess they had done their job and weren't worth bringing back. To quote "At Close Quarters":
The Navy Depariment properly got rid of most of its PT's. Their job was done, and because of their light wooden construction, they could not be stored away against future need as the steel-hulled ships of the fleet. Indeed, many of the older boats, which had been kept running because of combat necessity, were no longer worth saving for any purpose. All the boats in the western Pacific were carefully surveyed. It was found that 118 hulls were defective because of broken frames, worms and dry rot, broken keels, cracked longitudinals, or battle damage. These boats were stripped of all salvageable material and the bare hulls were burned on the beach at Samar.
The serviceable boats in the Pacific, after being stripped of armament and other military equipment, were turned over to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, and those in the United States to the War Shipping Administration, for disposal.
Mark, good luck on your search. Maybe an islander can help pinpoint the location. Check these posts for some general tips:
http://www.ptboats.org/cgi-local/sitenetbbs/netboardr.cgi?fid=102&cid=101&tid=1610&sc=20&pg=1&x=0
http://www.ptboats.org/cgi-local/sitenetbbs/netboardr.cgi?fid=102&cid=101&tid=1545&sc=20&pg=1&x=0
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Michael |
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Posted on: Aug 23, 2011 - 10:58pm
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Heres the Southern Cross at Base 17,
Stripped and ready to be burnt
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DAN LEWANDOWSKI
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Posted on: Aug 25, 2011 - 12:43am
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A tear in my eye........
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Steve Tuhy
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Posted on: Sep 3, 2011 - 7:33pm
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I WONDER IF THERE ARE ANY OF THE BRASS SHIPS PLACARDS, COPPER SCREWS, NAILS OR BOLTS LEFT AFTER BURNING. MAYBE THEY SURVIVED THE FIRES?
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