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Zf068

Zf068. Then I descended to the Engineering Ravine via the defense position VII-F-2 near the Japanese gun and the ammunition storage of the Pistol Target Range on the Corregidor North Road. This half moon storage has further deteriorated.

Zf067

Zf067. Looked for and found the only in-place remaining Japanese Artillery Piece on Corregidor Island, a tree fell on it but no damage.

Zf066

Zf066. Looked for and found the only in-place remaining Japanese Artillery Piece on Corregidor Island, a tree fell on it but no damage.

Zf065

Zf065. I then descended thru the woods, down the slopes, thru some difficult vegetation to find the very large discarded concrete blocks and found them. Fots2 and I once surprised some scrappers getting the rebar. I can report no one else has been there since. This location is near the only remaining Japanese artillery gun, still at its original location. We still have not figured out from where it came, when and why it ended–up at that place.

Zf058

Zf058. Next, I was looking for the West Defense Officer Station and I promptly came across the vent of the structure.

Zf057

Zf057. This is one of the two stairway entrances to the 1917 AA Magazine; during WWII it became part of Battery Chicago

Zf056

Zf056. One of several structures or earth heaps in the Anti Air Craft (AA) WWII Battery Chicago, which was placed in the 1917 built AA Battery area on Morrison Hill, Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. This was a concrete structure and it is mostly buried but I don’t know what it purpose it served. I tried this shot under it, but I can’t figure it out.

Zf055

Zf055. One of several structures or earth heaps in the Anti Air Craft (AA) WWII Battery Chicago, which was placed in the 1917 built AA Battery area on Morrison Hill, Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. This was a concrete structure and it is mostly buried but I don’t know what it purpose it served.

Zf054

Zf054. This is a section of the 1936 Fort Mills on Corregidor Island map covering the images of this 6th and the next, # 7 segments, of this presentation. I marked the map with the subjects to be covered in this 6th and the next Segment.

Zf053

Zf053. One of several structures or earth heaps in the Anti Air Craft (AA) WWII Battery Chicago, which was placed in the 1917 built AA Battery area on Morrison Hill, Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. This, we believe was the Battery Chicago Range Finder Station built on an earth heap.