Photo #: NH 105683
Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN
(President, Navy Board of Inspection and Survey)
Points out the old north pier on Corregidor Island, Manila Bay,
Philippines to Lieutenant Commander Erwin Sharp, USN. From that
location on the night of 11 March 1942, then-Lieutenant Bulkeley,
commanding USS PT-41, 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.
The photo, taken by Journalist First Class W.G. Broome, is dated
8 August 1977.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 560 pixels
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