Tag: Coastal Artillery
Grande Island, ex Fort Wint in Subic Bay
Grande Island, ex Fort Wint, 016. One of the 6-inch guns mounted on a disappearing carriage. Batteries Hall and Woodruff each had two of them. (1968 photo, source unknown) ————————————————— These pictures and texts are from a Corregidor Forum Webpage contributed mostly from John Moffitt (fots2). These pictures had to be replaced because they […]
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WWII, Philippines, from CDSG Friends, #01
– Zd102. Flickr 001. SC 118548 Men of Battery “E” 91st C.A. loading 10 Inch shells, this image was received from the Phil. Dept. 11 Jan. 1941. This must be Battery Grubbs, and Philippine Scouts in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. Another 10 Inch battery was in Fort Wint, on Grande Island […]
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Battery Arizona walk 8th April 2020
Zo417. One of 7 images of what Battery Arizona was, where it is and two URLs that give you the history and what it looks like now, the picture came from this URL, click here: —————————————- I was not able to enter Battery Arizona but that was not on my plan and I did not […]
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