The Silver Secret of Caballo Bay
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"6th May 1942 The USS Pigeon (AR-6) and barge and Army mineplanter the (USAMP) Harrison, with barge in tow, were loaded with wppden boxes that were full of silver pesos in canvas bags and then taken out into Caballo Bay and jettisonned into the bay in about (20) fathoms of water. The boxes contained about (17,000,000) pesos (or 7 to 8.5 million dollars). It took ten nights to move the (350) tons of silver to the floor of Caballo Bay ... When Corregidor surrendered 6th My 1942, the Navy divers ho had helped in disposing of the silver were taken prisoner ... Throughout this recovery process, the...
"6th May 1942 The USS Pigeon (AR-6) and barge and Army mineplanter the (USAMP) Harrison, with barge in tow, were loaded with wppden boxes that were full of silver pesos in canvas bags and then taken out into Caballo Bay and jettisonned into the bay in about (20) fathoms of water. The boxes contained about (17,000,000) pesos (or 7 to 8.5 million dollars). It took ten nights to move the (350) tons of silver to the floor of Caballo Bay ... When Corregidor surrendered 6th My 1942, the Navy divers ho had helped in disposing of the silver were taken prisoner ... Throughout this recovery process, the divers invented all kinds of ways to hide the silver they would bring up from the botom ..."--Pages 13-19.
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