Corregidor & Ft. Mills structures – Page 17

Media Category: Corregidor & Ft. Mills structures

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

Zd113

Zd113. Flickr 012. SWPA-Sig C-45-20539. SC-263698. 27th Feb. 1945. Jap. “Q” boats, based on Corregidor Island, P.I. (were manned by suicide volunteers called “Tojo Men” who drove these boats) are brought out on tracks to the ocean. Photographer: T/5 G. Arend. Note: Now we know these are the suicide boat tunnels at the former Fort Mills Officer Beach, north shore, Tailend on Corregidor.

Zd112

Zd112. Flickr 011. SWPA-Sig C-45-20537. SC-263697. 27th Feb. 1945. Jap. “Q” boats, based on Corregidor Island, P.I. (were manned by suicide volunteers called “Tojo Men” who drove these boats) are brought out on tracks to the ocean. Photographer: T/5 G. Arend. Note: Now we know these are the suicide boat tunnels at the former Fort Mills Officer Beach, north shore, Tailend on Corregidor.

Zd111

Zd111. Flickr 010. SWPA-Sig C-45-20532. SC-263691. 17th Feb. 1945. C-47s are flying over the “Rock”, (at former Ft. Mills, Corregidor Island, P.I.) and drop supplies, food and water for the men of the 503rd Parachute Inf. Reg’t. who jumped the day before. Photographer: Pfc. W. Goen.

Zd110

Zd110. Flickr 009. SWPA-Sig C-45-20429. 17th Feb. 1945. Paratroopers of the 462nd Airborne Artillery recover 75mm ammunition which was dropped by chute and landed in a shell crater at Topside in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. Photographer Pfc W. Goen.

Zd109

Zd109. Flickr 008. SWPA-Sig C-45-13291. 6th Mach 1945; SC271167. T/5 Kingsley Fall was the photographer and wrote: Damaged 12 Inch Mortars, Battery Way, ex Fort Mills, Corregidor Island P.I. Fort Mills coal fired powerplant, Fort Mills Diesel Powerplant

Zd108

Zd108. Flickr 007. SWPA-Sig C-45-13285. 6th Mach 1945. T/5 Kingsley Fall was the photographer and said the view is of the ruins of San Jose Barrio in Fort Mills, Corregidor Island from Malinta Hill toward Topside.

Zd107

Zd107. Flickr 006. SC 271153. This is obvious the Fort Mills coal fired powerplant, replaced by a separate Diesel Power Plant, standing next, left to it and in the picture! But it is now referred to as the Cold Storage and Ice Plant. T/5 Kingsley Fall was the photographer in Mach 1945 on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. He took the shot from the Stockade Level, in back of the picture he typed prison.

Zd106

Zd106. Flickr 005. SWPA-Sig C-45-13271. 6th Mach 1945. View of Malinta Hill, looking east from Ordonnance Maintenance Shop Topside in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. Photographer T/5 Kingsley Fall. From Karl, I’m not sure whether the photographer got his location right! But I can’t make out the exact position either, your comments?

Zd105

Zd105. Flickr 004. 242022. Aerial view of the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. This is, perhaps, a post WWII image and on back of the picture, it says: released 6/21/46.

Zo622

Zo622. There was a bridge to cross, over a side ravine, to reach the Philippine Government Vault. During the TWO BATTLES OF CORREGIDOR, 1942 and 1945 the bridge got destroyed.