Fort Hughes, Caballo Island, Searchlight No. 11, from CDSG.

With Bataan under a smoke cloud, the relationships between Caballo, Corregidor, the North Channel and Bataan can be seen in this fine shot. The years haven’t been kind to the original slide, but we felt that the photo was sufficiently interesting to start the pulse of any dyed in the wool Corregidoros. Picture is from Corregidor.org: Click Here:

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These pictures are posted here as an album for the main purpose to source these pictures here but to be shown in this Corregidor Forum page: Click Here:

Most of these pictures came from Roger Davis, a very active member of the CDSG, but Photobucket has all his pictures watermarked. I had saved these pictures and I replaced them in the Corregidor Forum.

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Ft. Hughes, Caballo Isl. 01. An old map, graph of Fort Hughes on Caballo Island, it had been posted by John Moffitt but was also watermarked and is now replaced.

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Ft. Hughes, Caballo Isl. 02. A section of an old map, graph of Fort Hughes on Caballo Island, the east end, it had been posted by batteryboy (also watermarked). He was in a discussion with a forum visitor about a WWII veteran in Ft. Hughes, on Caballo Island as to where that veteran and relative of that visitor was buried during the battle. And batteryboy wrote this:

Hi Wes,

If that is the case, then JL Harris was buried just at the back of the old torpedo sotrage depots. That area right now is laid with concrete. A lot of that part of Caballo has changed thru the years due to Navy’c construction of new building facilities and roads.

I’ll get back to you if I find something on the graves registration.

Here is the map on the possible area of the “parade ground”

The east end of Caballo Island from fots2

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Ft. Hughes, Caballo Isl. 03. This is an opening on the cliff and army junk says this in the Corregidor Forum, in the URL above:

On photo W157, notice the slots in the cliff in front of Battery Gillespie, I was told by a Filipino sailor that those are connected by a tunnel to this opening on the backside of the cliff. I saw the opening on the backside, but as usual we were in a big hurry, so I didn’t get into the opening. It might be an interesting place to explore if anyone ever gets back there.

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Two more pictures from batteryboy and he said this in the URL above:

Here is the entrance to the extension of the tunnel and as mentioned by oozlefinch

Ft. Hughes, Caballo Isl. 04.

Ft. Hughes, Caballo Isl. 05.

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Roger Davis (armyjunk) added these 9 pictures of the Searchlight No11 in Fort Hughes on Caballo Island and he said this:

Hello everyone, maybe this will give everyone a slightly better idea of the layout of searchlight 11, the photo number coincides with the number on the very professional looking drawing. Mr. oozlefinch, The opening you asked about was on the road between Craighill and Gillespie, it looked as if it went to the “Slots” but someone will have to explore that…………………