Corregidor Isl.-Fort Mills – Page 154

Media Category: Corregidor Isl.-Fort Mills

All the information about Corregidor Island, the ex Fort Mills, before, during and after WWII.

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Z198. On my walk thru the ex Fort Mills Stockade Level I saw many steps like this, concrete walkways and concrete floor of the Barrio Concepion houses. My GPS device shows that these steps were just west of the 92nd C.A. (P.S.) barracks # 255.

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Z190. This is one of 6 images of the 75mm Gun semi-fixed emplacement in the former Spanish Fort on Corregidor Island. It is sitting right on top of the wall of the Spanish Fort. We can see the round base it was sitting on so it could be trained onto the target.

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Z189. This is one of 6 images of the 75mm Gun semi-fixed emplacement in the former Spanish Fort on Corregidor Island. It could cover the south beach at Bottomside

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Z188. This is an Army prewar aerial image of Fort Mills of the Stockade level of Corregidor Island. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt, a leader in the Coastal Defense Study Group organization (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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Z194. This is one of 6 images of the 75mm Gun semi-fixed emplacement in the former Spanish Fort on Corregidor Island. There is this large bomb or artillery shell impact hole next the magazine. On my walk thru the Stockade level I came across many bomb or artillery impact holes.

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Z193. Close-up of the last picture! This is one of 6 images of the 75mm Gun semi-fixed emplacement in the former Spanish Fort on Corregidor Island. It is sitting right on top of the wall of the Spanish Fort. We are looking now at the concrete structure nearby, most likely used as a magazine.

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Z192. This is one of 6 images of the 75mm Gun semi-fixed emplacement in the former Spanish Fort on Corregidor Island. It is sitting right on top of the wall of the Spanish Fort. We are looking now at the concrete structure nearby, most likely used as a magazine.

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Z191. This is one of 6 images of the 75mm Gun semi-fixed emplacement in the former Spanish Fort on Corregidor Island. It is sitting right on top of the wall of the Spanish Fort. We are looking now in the opposite direction.

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Z1fots095. This picture is shot from near the west entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel on Corregidor Island but it also shows the place where the Fort Mills Saluting Battery was and after the war it served as the place for the flagpole for the new Corregidor U.S. Command.

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Ze079. The location of Cable Hut No.5 in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island on the 1936 Fort Mills Facility Drawing.