Manila Bay – Page 178 – Philippine-Sailor

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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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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.

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Ze078. The entrance to Cable Hut No.5 in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island.

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Ze082. Cable Hut No.5 in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island has a tunnel that runs north under the previous construction rail track and now under the road to Topside. I am in the tunnel and the view is back to where I entered. The brackets, apparently were for the cables to run on thru the tunnel or culvert.

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Ze081. Cable Hut No.5 in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island has a tunnel that runs north under the previous construction rail track and now under the road to Topside. The other end is now closed with earth and so far we did not find the other end.

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Ze080. Cable Hut No.5 in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island has a tunnel that runs north under the previous construction rail track and now under the road to Topside.

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Ze074. This is Miss Jane; she helps out sometime at the new MacArthur’s Lounge. She is an employee of CFI and looks after the former MacArthur Café rooms which are now in the hands of CFI. Ms. Jing, the boss of the MacArthur’s Lounnge did not have any help as of Jan. 2019. But on my Feb. 2019 visit she did have a helper, a young girl, from Bataan but who grew up in Subic Bay.