Saluting Battery in Fort Mills, Corregidor Island

[Karl Welteke]

Saluting Battery in Fort Mills, Corregidor Island

Recently (2017-03-15) I had a closer look at the location of the former Fort Mills saluting gun position on Corregidor Island, took pictures and establish this album with 17 pictures:

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In this new thread I present 7 images but they are smaller than in the album:



V707. (-1). Steps still lead up to the former Fort Mills Saluting Battery on Corregidor Island, right is the present Corregidor Foundation Admin Building (CFI).



V708. (-2). A section of the 1936 Fort Mills map on Corregidor Island; it shows the location of the Saluting Battery. The magazine on the south end of this Skipper Hill Spur I did not look at this time.



V709. (-5). This round cement base, I’s sure, must have served as the base for that saluting gun in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island; I only seen one.




V710. (-11). As I rounded the round cement base to the west side I noticed this opening. We are at the location of the former Fort Mills Saluting Battery on Skipper Hill, Corregidor Island.



V711. (-13). This is the right chamber of the dugout under the Saluting Battery on Skipper Hill in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. I cannot tell whether any cement was used in creating it.



V712. (-14). This is the left chamber of the dugout under the Saluting Battery on Skipper Hill in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. I cannot tell whether any cement was used in creating it.



V713. (-17). If you turn your back to Saluting Battery on Skipper Hill and look south this is what you see, the top or back of this North Spur of the Skipper Hill. I am not sure where the name Skipper Hill comes from but it seems to be appropriate.

[beirutvet]

Karl

You are amazing!  Where do you come up with this stuff?  I had no idea there was a saluting battery but upon thinking about it for a few minutes, it certainly makes sense that there would be a saluting gun during that era.  And why not a whole battery to support it.  It surely would fit in with the motif of the whole island being riddled with batteries everywhere.

Again, you have outdone yourself.

[beirutvet]

In my amazement I forgot to ask, are there any surviving pictures that show us what the battery looked like in the day?

[Karl Welteke]

Hello Beirutvet. I don’t remember ever seeing a picture of the battery. Thank you for your comments. We frequent visitors knew about the battery and I have visited it before. I just decided to visit it again and refresh my memory. I don’t recall seeing the mural with Rizal, but there is so much to see, I could have missed it. Cheers and have a good one.

[Karl Welteke]

This is a great picture which also should be shared in this thread!



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.

This picture is from fots2 aka John Moffitt and he posted it at this thread: corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2188/corregidor-railway-trolley-tram-system