Manila Bay – Page 209 – 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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Zc141. A closer look of the operating mechanism 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.

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Zc140. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.