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Post by one50 on Jun 28, 2010 3:44:19 GMT 8
I think this is a photo of A Corregidor battery. Yes or no? None the less I'm the new owner of this photo...actually a 4x5 army negative. I took a chance that it may be Corregidor. Please give me you thoughts on the image. Thanks Dan Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2010 3:49:58 GMT 8
I don't know of any 12" mortar battery on Corregidor, at Fort Wint, or any of the other fortified islands in Manila Bay where the mortars were located so close together. My guess is that it's someplace stateside, or perhaps on Oahu.
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Post by one50 on Jun 28, 2010 4:16:59 GMT 8
Didn't Battery Way use 12" mortars? Thats what this looks like to me...thats why I picked this photo up. Battery Way with 4 Mortars? The walls seem kind of low to me...and as you mention John the mortars seem really close packed...hence my apprehension about Battery Way.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2010 7:52:10 GMT 8
Battery Way had M-1890 seacoast mortars, but they were in a larger pit, with more space between them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2010 8:22:24 GMT 8
I just read that mortar batteries that were constructed earlier tended to group the guns much closer together, so that there was barely a foot of space seperating them. I took that to mean the location of your picture was probably on Oahu, in Cuba, or stateside. The Panama Canal Zone wouldn't have gotten their mortars until after the canal opened.
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Post by batteryboy on Jun 28, 2010 9:34:13 GMT 8
This is not in Corregidor or any of the island forts in Manila Bay. It could be one of the stateside older 12-inch mortar batteries,
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Post by one50 on Jul 1, 2010 9:49:27 GMT 8
I figured it out. You guys are good. You amaze me. It is a stateside battery. Battery Stotensburg-McKinnon at Fort Winfield Scott near the Presidio of San Francisco, CA.
Now I know....now you know. Thanks again.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2010 13:56:45 GMT 8
The low level of the surrounding berms, plus the close grouping of the mortars were a dead giveaway.
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