Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #5pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island. This is Gun #1 of Battery Hall, a 2006 pic from the www.
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Although Coast Artillery and Coast Defense was mostly identified to the US 59th and 60th CA regiments and the Philippine Scout’s 91st and 92nd CA regiments, there was a Philippine Army coast artillery unit that began training since 1938 and were based at Fort Wint, Grande Island in the entrance of Subic Bay. The fort was leased to them and they utilized Batteries Warwick and Jewell.
Karl says:
#1. This is/was a presentation by batteryboy in the Corregidor forum on the 19th Aug. 2008. It had 3 pictures but they disappeared. I had saved them and replaced them in this Corregidor forum URL: https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/228/philippine-coast-artillery-training-wint
#2. I sourced the 3 pictures in my webage as a new page and copied all of batteryboy’s texts also. It is at this URL:
Tony continues:
Here are a few rare shots of them at Wint:
Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #1pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island
Filipino trainee receiving coordinates from the battery command station at Battery Warwick
Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #2pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island
Filipino gun crew trainees load a bagged charge into the breech of one of Battery Warwicks 10-inch disappearing gun. Notice that they are wearing the “guinit” helmet (made from crushed coconut shell and wood) and the blue denim uniform issued to most of Philippine Army troops in the period.
Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #3pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island
A little blurred but this is another unit about to fire the 6-inch DC gun of Battery Jewel. Again, this was taken from an old documentary in my collection so the quality was affected. Nevertheless, I had fun identifying them.
Note from Karl: Tony, may have this wrong, only Batteries Woodruff and Hall were 6 Inch guns.
Cheers,
Tony
Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #4pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island. This is a graph from the www.
Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #5pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island. This is Gun #1 of Battery Hall, a 2006 pic from the www. The 2003 date entry on this picture is wrong!