Post by fots2 on Oct 21, 2011 0:15:52 GMT 8
Here are some more miscellaneous photos taken while wandering around Corregidor.
Battery Cheney Gun #1.
Bottomside South looking towards Caballo Island.
This command post has a reinforced concrete room within outer concrete walls. Access to the inner room in this area was via a sliding blast door.
Here is a view of the Malinta Tunnel west entrance that you do not see very often.
Looking into the Battery Kysor Gun #1 position.
Top of the rear emergency escape shaft for a beach bunker.
An early morning view looking across the mouth of Cheney Ravine. The rectangular structure is the concrete entrance to a tunnel known as Strategic Material Storehouse #8 (SMSH #8).
A close-up view of SMSH #8. Notice another tunnel is located in the cliff side above it.
Japanese guns on display, Tailside.
Quartermaster Corps “Subsistence” Storehouse (Building #76).
Philippine Air Force Sikorsky S-76 transporting a VIP at the Topside Parade Ground.
Red painted concrete trim still existing on the Topside Mile Long Barracks.
A section of the Mile Long Barracks can be seen from the top of the Lighthouse. Bataan is in the background.
The Sun Cruises ferry arrives from Manila.
The interior of Searchlight #3 shelter.
The narrow winding South Shore Road around Malinta Hill.
This is another view that is unusual. This was taken almost halfway up the west side of Malinta Hill. I am standing at the surface opening of the airshaft above the Malinta Gasoline Tunnel.
Shrine at the Japanese Memorial Garden.
Cheney Ravine is quite steep so the water run off after typhoons down to the beach must be extensive. At this location the stream has bypassed the original concrete bridge seen towards the right. The wooden bridge is for hikers who prefer the easy path. Such a bridge might last one season before it rots away. This photo was taken in the dry season.
When fired, the recoil of a disappearing gun is what pushes it down into the hidden position behind a parapet. In preparation to firing again, a number of counter-weights lift the gun back up above the parapet. Here is a look at these counter-weights stacked like pancakes down below the guns.
I cannot say which of the warring sides created this round skylight but I can say I would not want to be under it at the time.
Part of the parapet and Gun #1 of Battery Ramsay.
The camouflage paint job is still visible under this gun shelter.
The former trolley line exited Battery Grubbs through this concrete arch.
The tunnel from the Malinta 1000 bed hospital out to the north side of the hill.
The usual rainy season view as you approach Battery Cheney. The grasses are chin high. Gun #2 is straight ahead.
An electric trolley line brought powder and heavy shells to Battery Wheeler. I am standing where they would have been unloaded for final transport into the adjacent magazines.
A look at the 12-inch gun of Battery Hearn with an underground magazine behind it.
Battery Cheney Gun #1.
Bottomside South looking towards Caballo Island.
This command post has a reinforced concrete room within outer concrete walls. Access to the inner room in this area was via a sliding blast door.
Here is a view of the Malinta Tunnel west entrance that you do not see very often.
Looking into the Battery Kysor Gun #1 position.
Top of the rear emergency escape shaft for a beach bunker.
An early morning view looking across the mouth of Cheney Ravine. The rectangular structure is the concrete entrance to a tunnel known as Strategic Material Storehouse #8 (SMSH #8).
A close-up view of SMSH #8. Notice another tunnel is located in the cliff side above it.
Japanese guns on display, Tailside.
Quartermaster Corps “Subsistence” Storehouse (Building #76).
Philippine Air Force Sikorsky S-76 transporting a VIP at the Topside Parade Ground.
Red painted concrete trim still existing on the Topside Mile Long Barracks.
A section of the Mile Long Barracks can be seen from the top of the Lighthouse. Bataan is in the background.
The Sun Cruises ferry arrives from Manila.
The interior of Searchlight #3 shelter.
The narrow winding South Shore Road around Malinta Hill.
This is another view that is unusual. This was taken almost halfway up the west side of Malinta Hill. I am standing at the surface opening of the airshaft above the Malinta Gasoline Tunnel.
Shrine at the Japanese Memorial Garden.
Cheney Ravine is quite steep so the water run off after typhoons down to the beach must be extensive. At this location the stream has bypassed the original concrete bridge seen towards the right. The wooden bridge is for hikers who prefer the easy path. Such a bridge might last one season before it rots away. This photo was taken in the dry season.
When fired, the recoil of a disappearing gun is what pushes it down into the hidden position behind a parapet. In preparation to firing again, a number of counter-weights lift the gun back up above the parapet. Here is a look at these counter-weights stacked like pancakes down below the guns.
I cannot say which of the warring sides created this round skylight but I can say I would not want to be under it at the time.
Part of the parapet and Gun #1 of Battery Ramsay.
The camouflage paint job is still visible under this gun shelter.
The former trolley line exited Battery Grubbs through this concrete arch.
The tunnel from the Malinta 1000 bed hospital out to the north side of the hill.
The usual rainy season view as you approach Battery Cheney. The grasses are chin high. Gun #2 is straight ahead.
An electric trolley line brought powder and heavy shells to Battery Wheeler. I am standing where they would have been unloaded for final transport into the adjacent magazines.
A look at the 12-inch gun of Battery Hearn with an underground magazine behind it.