Rick the Librarian
04-08-2013, 05:21
My friend Victor, who runs a very nice website on the Philippine Scouts, gave me a link to a website that has vintage film clips and among them was a short film clip taken by the Japanese, probably at Mariveles, on Bataan, shortly after the American surrender in April, 1942, showing the large amounts of equipment captured or turned in.
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675062378_Japanese-soldiers_World-War-II_captured-equipment_United-States-military-cemetery
Among the items I saw in the film clip:
1) Several GPF 155mm guns on road mounts with prime movers
2) British 18-pounders that served as division artillery for the Philippine National Army both on rubber and steel spoked wheels.
3) Mobile 3" AA gun
4) Wrecked or abandoned M3 light tank - these were used by the 192nd and 194th Tank Battalions
5) Bren Gun carrier - these were impounded off a ship that was carrying them to Hong Kong shortly before the start of WWII.
6) Several pictures of a "park" of captured 18 pounders on steel spoked wheels.
7) A large number of captured Browning M1917 MGs.
8) Several 50 cal. air-cooled MGs on AA mounts
9) Several pictures of piles of rifles - hard to tell, but you can pick out a few M1903s as well as an M1917 with a broken stock. (How I've LOVE to have one of those!!). Another pile with a BAR peeking out and another with a BAR leaning against the stack.
10) Several shots of M1917A1 helmets and gas masks.
11) A number of boxes containing fabric belts of 30-cal. ammunition. (I see a magazine or two from a Lewis gun.
12) A few pictures of piles of what look like expended cartridges (I see what looks like artillery casings, as well). This may have been an ammo dump that was blown up by the Americans the night before Bataan fell. If you look carefully, you can see what looks like some M1 Garand clips (empty).
13) 155mm shells and what are probably 500 pound bombs.
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675062378_Japanese-soldiers_World-War-II_captured-equipment_United-States-military-cemetery
Among the items I saw in the film clip:
1) Several GPF 155mm guns on road mounts with prime movers
2) British 18-pounders that served as division artillery for the Philippine National Army both on rubber and steel spoked wheels.
3) Mobile 3" AA gun
4) Wrecked or abandoned M3 light tank - these were used by the 192nd and 194th Tank Battalions
5) Bren Gun carrier - these were impounded off a ship that was carrying them to Hong Kong shortly before the start of WWII.
6) Several pictures of a "park" of captured 18 pounders on steel spoked wheels.
7) A large number of captured Browning M1917 MGs.
8) Several 50 cal. air-cooled MGs on AA mounts
9) Several pictures of piles of rifles - hard to tell, but you can pick out a few M1903s as well as an M1917 with a broken stock. (How I've LOVE to have one of those!!). Another pile with a BAR peeking out and another with a BAR leaning against the stack.
10) Several shots of M1917A1 helmets and gas masks.
11) A number of boxes containing fabric belts of 30-cal. ammunition. (I see a magazine or two from a Lewis gun.
12) A few pictures of piles of what look like expended cartridges (I see what looks like artillery casings, as well). This may have been an ammo dump that was blown up by the Americans the night before Bataan fell. If you look carefully, you can see what looks like some M1 Garand clips (empty).
13) 155mm shells and what are probably 500 pound bombs.