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Post by EXO on Mar 4, 2007 15:52:03 GMT 8
Sometimes the rain can make a nice picture. [/size] [/center]
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Post by micahwcollins on Jan 2, 2010 8:38:51 GMT 8
I have a few questions here about battery Wheeler... There's a tunnel that I think is labeled C1 in the ravine next to wheeler and from what it looks like and from some of the things I've found in there in earlier years, it was a pretty well used tunnel by both Japanese and US/Filipino troops. Was this a major command tunnel for Wheeler battery as well as the AA guns? If so are there any other large command tunnels like this around? The middleside tunnel is similar and I guess so is the 1000 man tunnel but I don't think they were really command stations, but I don't know. C1 is huge and it goes way far back and out the other side. Anyhow just thought I'd ask!
Thanks, Micah
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Post by fots2 on Jan 2, 2010 10:38:42 GMT 8
Excellent photo there EXO. Hi Micah, Is the tunnel you are referring to concrete lined or bare rock? There are two surviving tunnels in the immediate area of Battery Wheeler. I don’t think either of them had any direct command functions involving that battery. Battery Wheeler’s control station was on top of the battery plus there was a direction finder building on the ridge behind it. The tunnel on the east side of Wheeler (unlined) was most likely ‘one’ of the tunnels that Col. Bunker had constructed. He was the commander of the gun batteries. A current discussion of it is here: corregidor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=403The primary Groupment Command Post (i.e. C1) was just south west of this tunnel so I expect that is where it got this name from. The tunnel on the west side of Battery Wheeler (lined) was most like for storage and some bunks on the spiral section between the two levels. I do not know the exact function of this tunnel. Photos of it labeled “Wheeler Tunnel” are in this album: www.pbase.com/fots2/corregidorPerhaps others can add more info.
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