Photo #: NH 105681
Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN
(President, Navy Board of Inspection and Survey)
Visits a 12-inch Mortar Battery during his tour of Corregidor
Island, Manila Bay, Philippines. The photo, taken by Journalist
First Class W.G. Broome, is dated 8 August 1977.
On 11 March 1942 then-Lieutenant Bulkeley piloted USS PT-41
when she evacuated U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, with
members of the General's family and his party, from the island
during the Japanese campaign to capture the Philippines.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 76KB; 575 x 765 pixels
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