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September 2003
Completed the creation of the CD
Brochure layout, which was then published in Manila in association with the
Corregidor Foundation Inc.
4-10
April 2003
Upgrade of the look and feel of the
main jumpstation pages, including resetting of navigation links.
10 August 2002
The Heritage Battalion website is opened.
The Heritage Bn. marks the growth from a site limited to
Corregidor to one which covers all aspects of the 503d PRCT.
25 July 2002
Battery "I" 60th Coast Artillery Unit History
added.
We are now working on three websites -
along with Corregidor Then and Now, and 503d on The Rock, we will shortly be
adding 503d PRCT Heritage Bn., which will open a new hub dedicated to
establishing the heritage of the 503d, and following its lineage through
links involving Korea, Vietnam and on into Vincenza, Italy. We've even
been so busy, we haven't been keeping up with the What's New Page. Fancy
that!
25 April 2002
We have a link page, but this one is
out of the box.
5 April 2002
THANKS, for those very special people who have helped the website
22 March 2002
Photo-Zone system introduced
25 February 2002
Surrender on Negros - Photographs of the Japanese Surrender on Negros
Island, and Jim Mullaney's recollections of being there.
1 September 2001
This CD-ROM is produced to communicate
a concept which arose, quite accidentally, from my creation of the
"Corregidor Then and Now" website. The website has, until
recently, reflected my acquisition of words and images relating to
Corregidor, and to all aspects of the 503d PRCT.
The website has become a victim of its
own success. When it started, it was hosted on Geo-Cities, which at the time
offered free web-hosting. Then came the advertising, and we moved to form a
Microsoft Community, which never got off the ground.) For over a year we have been hosted out of Brisbane, but the
squeeze is on and we are facing bills of up to A$100 per month for hosting.
The website has shown me a whole new
dimension. Together, the many threads of Corregidor have woven
a rich tapestry of history, and have created a heritage document,
unlike no other collection - because the entire expectation of this
collection was to make it widely accessible. It can become, I
hope, Chapter 1 of a vision - to create a means whereby Corregidor Veterans
and Troopers can have their individual memories, their souvenirs, and
their photographs, recorded in a manner that can be passed down to
their families, and beyond. It will become, I hope, their heritage
document, the means by which these personal experiences can be preserved,
not merely for historians, but for everyone who feels the yearning to
understand what was The Corregidor Experience.
20 August 2001
CD-ROM produced.
1 June 2001
22 May 2001
19 May 2001
19 May 2001
"A long time ago I
was on a troopship, the USS Eltinge bound for Bremerhaven. Anticipating a dull
trip, I had a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which in most ways is a very dull
book. What wasn't dull was his theory of the battle where he describes the
action at Borodino not as some great strategic clash that will decide the fate
of Europe but thousands of small struggles among confused and bewildered
soldiers who only know what is happening to them and a few of their comrades
that are nearby. They are so confused that they never know whether they were
brave or cowardly soldiers or whether they have properly done their duty because
no one tells them except in a general way perhaps. Not only are they uncertain
about the battle and even themselves, there is really no one to talk to about it
unless they had experienced the same thing. This leads me to another theory
which has to do with why there are so many veteran's organisations and why when
the old soldiers get together the pervasive 'hospitality room'
flourishes. Enough of this, we have more serious matters on hand. The closer you
get to the individual soldier doing the dirty work the closer you are to the
truth in the war."
John Lindgren
Not the final word on the topic, but the beginning of John's quest..
AN OUTLINE OF EVENTS AT WHEELER POINT ON 18 AND 19
FEBRUARY 1945 -
In January 2001, a group of Corregidoros, accompanied by Maj. Arlis Kline and
Al McGrew ("H" Battery, 60th CA (AA)) found a WWII canopy buried under a fallen
concrete column of the mile long barracks, Topside. For the details, see
THE 2001 CORREGIDOR REPORT
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