Manila Bay – Page 106 – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: Manila Bay

For the 4 islands in Manila Bay that used to be the Manila Bay Defense Forts, Corregidor-Ft. Mills, Caballo-Ft. Hughes, Fraile-Ft. Drum, Carabao-Ft.Frank.

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Zf659. The new gun emplacement in Manila Bay on the 7th June 2022; this is a project of the DENR Department. This project is shaping up like the one of the two Gun Turrets on Fort Drum, the El Fraile Island, in Manila Bay.

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Zf663. The new gun emplacement in Manila Bay on the 7th June 2022; this is a project of the DENR Department. This project is shaping up like the one of the two Gun Turrets on Fort Drum, the El Fraile Island, in Manila Bay.

Zf662

Zf662. The new gun emplacement in Manila Bay on the 7th June 2022; this is a project of the DENR Department. This project is shaping up like the one of the two Gun Turrets on Fort Drum, the El Fraile Island, in Manila Bay.

Zf661

Zf661. The new gun emplacement in Manila Bay on the 7th June 2022; this is a project of the DENR Department. This project is shaping up like the one of the two Gun Turrets on Fort Drum, the El Fraile Island, in Manila Bay.

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WWII Coastal Artillery Guns are being installed in Manila Bay Zf650. Screenshot of a Manila Bulletin Facebook Video: Workers rush to install the ‘The Heritage Cannon’, a World War II relic, in the Remedios area of the Dolomite beach as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources plans to reopen the Manila Baywalk Dolomite Beach […]

Zf641

Zf641. This is a sound detecting device of the 60th Coastal Artillery Regiment in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the 1930s from The Riley McGarraugh Collection. Photo is courtesy of Glen Wiliford who holds the copyright to it.

Zf642

Zf642. This, I believe, must to a gun fire direction device for an AA gun of the 60th Coastal Artillery Regiment in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the 1930s from The Riley McGarraugh Collection. Photo is courtesy of Glen Wiliford who holds the copyright to it.

Zf608

Zf608. This obviously is the 12 Inch Battery Hearn in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. This is a San Diego Air and Space Museum WWII image from the donated album of T.B. Suitor.

Zf607

Zf607. This is a view down the Engineering Ravine in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island from a point above and between the two Middleside Barracks. This is a San Diego Air and Space Museum WWII image from the donated album of T.B. Suitor.

Zf606

Zf606. This must be Battery Crockett of Fort Mills on Corregidor Island but what is unique about this image is that machinegun tower. That is the clearest picture we seen of the machine gun towers but I believe it was ordered not to use them; they seemed to be a great target for strafing runs. […]