Corregidor & Ft. Mills structures – Page 13

Media Category: Corregidor & Ft. Mills structures

This category is for all structures on Corregidor, old and new.

Zd222

Zd222. Flickr 059. This partial image description is clear about Subic Bay and it indicates the US Forces left this gun there in 1942 and that the Japanese did not use it. The image apparently was shot in 1945. I have been in the former Fort Wint on Grande Island in Subic Bay many times and I’s sure this is one of four 3 Inch guns of Battery Jewell. It is facing Mount Cinco Pecos on the Peninsular that separates Subic Bay from the South China Sea.

Zd221

Zd221. Flickr 058. This is unique image of the so-called “Mile-Long-Barracks”, the eastern half of it. It must be shot at 1970 or after, the Dome of the Pacific War Memorial is in sight.
Topside Barracks stands shattered on Corregidor which was bombarded intensely by the Japanese in 1941-42 and by American forces as they retook the island fortress in 1945. I see the old flagstaff still stands, said General MacArthur on the day of victory. William Graves, who survived the siege when he was 14, went back to Corregidor 43 years later. His account of the battle and his return appear in the July National Geographic.

Zd220

Zd220. Flickr 057. This image has no SWPA-Sig. number nor a description but it is not needed. This is an aerial shot of Corregidor Island, P.I., perhaps before the 16th Feb. 1945, the day of Liberation for Corregidor. If you zoom in you can recognize all the well-known features of Topside in Fort Mills, The lighthouse, the water tanks, the Mile-Long Barracks etc.

Zd219

Zd219. Flickr 056. SWPA-Sig C-45-14767. 24th April 1945. SC263056. This is the Fort Mills Cine, theatre Topside on Corregidor Island, P.I. WE also see the east end of the so-called “Mile Long Barracks”. Photographer T/4 Harry Young.

Zd203

Zd203. Flickr 050. No description for this picture! This aerial shot of Topside, Corregidor Island and is looking south; in front is the so called; “Mile Long Barracks”, the in back is Battery Crockett. It might be a reconnaissance image before the airborne assault in Feb. 1945.

Zd201

Zd201. Flickr 048. SWPA-Sig C-45-13284. 6th March 1945. South mine dock, south shore Bottomside on Corregidor Island, P.I. Photographer: T/5 Kingsley Fall. During the Siege of Corregidor, it was mainly used by the Navy. Right, we see the Corregidor Breakwater Point and the Army made their amphibious assault, just right of this pier, on the 16th Feb. 1945 and called the landing site: “Black Beach”.

Zd200

Zd200. Flickr 047. This is the Fort Mills Hospital on Corregidor Island, P.I. We don’t have the description for this image but we Corregidor Friends, know the hospital well. I speculate that the picture was shot on the 6th of March 1945, like many other pictures of this CDSG Collection. This is the rear of the hospital, on the 2nd floor in the left wing, which is between two other wings was the hospital Galley (Kitchen).

Zd199

Zd199. Flickr 046. 16th Feb. 1945, 328122. Paratroopers are landing on Corregidor Island, P.I. That is all what the description says. But we Corregidor Friends know what we see. Left is Crockett Ravine. Some paratroopers landed short of their Landing Field “B”, the Fort Mills Golf Course, they landed just under and a little left of Battery Geary. Paratrooper Dick Adams landed there and we showed him around a few years ago. He visited Corregidor again in 2020 for the 75th Anniversary of the Paratrooper assault of Corregidor.

Zd205

Zd205. Flickr 052. No description for this picture! We can assume this is the plotting room for the previous gun control observation post image in Fort Mills Coastal Defense Artillery. These must be soldiers of the 91st Coast Artillery Regiment, a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the United States Army, part of the Philippine Scouts. This could be a post for Battery Grubbs or Morrison.

Zd204

Zd204. Flickr 051. No description for this picture! This is a very unique image, prewar most likely, of a gun control observation post in Fort Mills Coastal Defense Artillery. These are soldiers of the 91st Coast Artillery Regiment, a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the United States Army, part of the Philippine Scouts. This could be a post for Battery Grubbs or Morrison. The reason we know that, is, the targets listed above the observation slits. Hornos Point is just west of Mariveles. During the siege of Corregidor, it was observed (daytime) that the Japanese Forces were bringing landing boats around that point. The Japanese were immediately targeted and that was the end of daylight trips.