August 1978
Before the gaudily decorated ersatz 'Corregidor Trolleys,' tourists were met by an old Dodge Power Wagon, or, if there was a group, an old US-style school bus. Either way, there was an echo of the island's past. The blockhouse was formerly a coal bunker. Pity it didn't stay that way. The North Channel is in the background.
" When I spotted the destroyer, a four stacker, ripping through the water toward the North Channel, four twin-engine Jap Sally’s were coming from the southeast preparing to make a pass at the Tin Can! Their altitude was less than a thousand feet, and they were in a tight diamond formation! The destroyer began to zig-zag as the bombers neared. The bombs fell to the port side of the destroyer and the planes banked left just east of Corregidor and curved around for another pass. "
extract from Al McGrew's AMID TH' ENCIRCLING GLOOM
photo © Paul F.Whitman 1978
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