Manila Bay – Page 210 – 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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Zc128. The gun barrel of #1 gun, Battery Ramsay is lying on the parapet after scrappers done their evil work. This is in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island and the scrapping happened after the U.S. turned over the Island to Philippine authority and before the Philippine Government made the island a historical shrine.

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Zc127. The lower portion of #1 Gun, Battery Ramsay is laying on top of the parapet after it blew up here in 1945 as a result from U.S. Bombing in preparation to liberate Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island. This is a Jan 2004 image. This is one of my first visits to Corregidor Island with the famous webmaster of Corregidor.org standing behind the gun.

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Zc126. The lower portion of #1 Gun, Battery Ramsay is laying on top of the parapet after it blew up here in 1945 as a result from U.S. Bombing in preparation to liberate Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island. This is an April 2010 image.

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Zc125. The lower portion of #1 Gun, Battery Ramsay is laying on top of the parapet after it blew up here in 1945 as a result from U.S. Bombing in preparation to liberate Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island. This is an April 2010 image.

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Zc124. After you enter the Battery Ramsay area and immediately to the right we see #1 gun blown up onto the Parapet.

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Zc119. This is the Battery Ramsay area, this is the direction you enter it.

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Zc123. In March 2009 we had VIP visitors and we are standing around #3 gun of Battery Ramsay. From left to right, it is Peter Parson-son of a famous WWII warrior Chick Parsons, James Zobel he is archivist of the Gen MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Paul Whitman-webmaster of the famous Corregidor.org web pages, then, sorry, I forgot who the 4th Gentleman is.