Guns, gun batteries – Page 21

Media Category: Guns, gun batteries

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Zc138. A rare look inside the carriage of a 6 Inch disappearing gun; this is #3 Gun of Battery Ramsay, Fort Mills on Corregidor Island; it is the most intact gun of the three 6 Inch gun at this battery. This is a 2010 image.

Zc137

Zc137. This is a Jan. 2004 image of #3 Gun of Battery Ramsay, Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. It was one of my early visits to Corregidor with the webmaster of corregidor.org. The other fellow is a retired Air Force Officer and son of a paratrooper with the 503d PIR.

Zc136

Zc136. This is #3 Gun of Battery Ramsay, Fort Mills on Corregidor Island; it is the most intact gun of the three 6 Inch gun at this battery. Part of the parapet around #1 Gun of Battery Ramsay is still intact. This is a 2010 image.

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Zc129. No 2 Gun, Battery Ramsay is buried in the ground after the battery blew up in 1945.

Zc133

Zc133. This is all that is left in position, the base of one of the 6 Inch guns of Battery Ramsay in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island; it got completely destroyed by the U.S. bombing in 1945.This is 2010 image.

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Zc132. This is all that is left in position, the base of one of the 6 Inch guns of Battery Ramsay in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island; it got completely destroyed by the U.S. bombing in 1945.This is 2010 image.

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Zc131. The #2 Gun of Battery Ramsay in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island got completely destroyed by the U.S. bombing in 1945 and is buried in the ground. This is a 2004 image

Zc130

Zc130. The #2 Gun of Battery Ramsay in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island got completely destroyed by the U.S. bombing in 1945 and is buried in the ground. This is a 2010 image.

Zc128

Zc128. The gun barrel of #1 gun, Battery Ramsay is lying on the parapet after scrappers done their evil work. This is in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island and the scrapping happened after the U.S. turned over the Island to Philippine authority and before the Philippine Government made the island a historical shrine.

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Zc127. The lower portion of #1 Gun, Battery Ramsay is laying on top of the parapet after it blew up here in 1945 as a result from U.S. Bombing in preparation to liberate Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island. This is a Jan 2004 image. This is one of my first visits to Corregidor Island with the famous webmaster of Corregidor.org standing behind the gun.