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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Ze341

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

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Ze340

Ze340. 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

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Ze339

Ze339. We are looking west on the Kindley Field air field; we are standing next to the entrance of the 1917 Fort Mills Defense Position I-M-I. Left we see the Southshore Road entering the airfield. This area is now part of the Jabidah Memorial.

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Ze338

Ze338. This is the rear view of the Kindley Field Control Building (built post WWII) for the air field on Corregidor Island. We are looking west.

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Ze333. 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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Ze332. We are looking west on the Kindley Field air field; the post WWII Control Building is left; no windsock is displayed on the windsock mast. The grass is cut and is piled up on both sided of the runway.

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Ze331

Ze331. This is a inside view of the Kindley Field Control Building (built post WWII) for the air field on Corregidor Island.

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Ze330

Ze330. This is a section of the 1936 Fort Mills Facility drawing for the Corregidor Tailend walk, 2019-April, the 6th; it covers the end of the walk.

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Ze329. This is a Google Earth image with my GPS track for the Corregidor Tailend walk, 2019-April, the 6th; it covers the end of the walk.

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Ze328

Ze328. This is another view of the east Panama Mount of Battery Levagood.

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