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.
Ze341. The Corregidor Massacre occurred on the 18th of March and maybe for a decade now this terrible event is commemorated at this location. This is the area where it happened; in back is the 1917 Fort Mills Defense Positions I-F-I. I started a forum page of this memorial with many pictures at this URL:
http://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/153/corregidor-surprise-jabidah-incident
Read MoreZe340. We are looking east, standing on the road next to the Kindley Field runway. Left we see the runway run towards east Right we see the Southshore Road entering the airfield. And straight ahead is the Mindanao Garden of Peace occupying the area of the 1917 Fort Mills Defense Positions I-M-I and I-F-I. The Mindanao Garden of Peace is a memorial commemorating the Corregidor Massacre. Our very own EXO wrote a story about it with many links, see this URL:
“THE CORREGIDOR MASSACRE – 1968” by Paul Whitman:
http://corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/jabidah.html
Read MoreZe333. This is the post WWII Control Building on the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island Kindley Field Airfield. No windsock is displayed on the windsock mast today. The grass is cut now and is piled up on both sided of the runway. A few weeks ago two Australian Pilots with an ultra light plane landed here and the grass was a problem.
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