Media Category: Tunnels

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Zo215. A photo of the repainted U.S. Army Engineering Icon over the North Entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel shot in about 2009 by John Moffitt (aka fots2). It is the first picture in his famous thread: “The Malinta Tunnel”. https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1357/malinta-tunnel

His lead paragraph said this about the construction of the Malinta Hill Tunnel.

Inaccurate history has become accepted history! I have learned that absolutely no construction took place during this period. For this project, not a single rock was disturbed on Malinta Hill. The correct period starts later in 1932 and continues in several phases up to and including wartime.

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Zo413

Zo413

Zo413. A close-up image of the information sign at the North Entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel shot in Jan. 2012.

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Zo412

Zo412

Zo412. A close-up image of the North Entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel shot in March 2011. This picture may be from someone else, but I don’t remember who.

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Z1fots095

Z1fots095

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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Ze033

Ze033

Ze033. The Malinta Hill Tunnel during construction, picture was provided by fots2

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Ze032

Ze032

Ze032. Photo was taken in 1967 and shows the Malinta main tunnel after clean-up but before restoration work had begun. It shows a second set of tracks there before restoration and after war debris clean-up. The picture was provided by fots2

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Za972

Za972

Za972. We are looking towards the east entrance of the tunnel and or magazine near the Infantry Point on Corregidor, the ex Fort Mills.

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Za971

Za971

Za971. These are swallow nests in the tunnel and or magazine near the Infantry Point on Corregidor, the ex Fort Mills. We are looking towards the east entrance.

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Za975

Za975

Za975. We are looking back into the tunnel from the east entrance thru the storage room in the tunnel and or magazine near the Infantry Point on Corregidor, the ex Fort Mills.

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Za974

Za974

Za974. This is the east entrance of this unique tunnel and or magazine near the Infantry Point on Corregidor, the ex Fort Mills.

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