Post by fots2 on Jun 16, 2012 20:20:05 GMT 8
You have stumbled onto a couple mysteries of mine.
A sketch of Battery B (Boston) shows three tunnels were dug along the road east of the battery. Today this road is still there but just a path now. I have zig zagged all along that little hillside and found absolutely nothing. (Very small search area). That is unusual because even if a tunnel is closed, evidence of it usually still exists such as broken chunks of concrete, rubble from digging lying around, or a concave in the hillside etc.
There is no doubt that a post war bulldozer was working on this hill above these tunnels as there is a photo of it. It could have covered or destroyed these tunnels but even that idea does not make sense to me. The hillside is not high and the road along the base of the hill is not covered with soil or rocks. GPS confirms that the road is exactly where it was pre-war. In short, I have found no evidence of these tunnels and it baffles me as to why.
Battery C (Chicago) constructed a tunnel starting in early 1942. This tunnel still exists although today it is collapsed 10 feet inside the entrance.
The unit history of Battery M (Mobile) is quite interesting in its description of the two entrance tunnel they constructed. It is described as being a maximum of 30 feet underground and passing completely through the hill. At the west end of Kindley Field where some of Battery M’s 50 cal AA guns were located, only the nearby eastern end of Denver Hill fits this description. The unit history text confirms this location when they describe feeling a large dynamite cache explosion two hundred yards away. We know where this explosion was.
On two occasions I have wandered around here looking for this tunnel and found no sign of either entrance. Vegetation is thick at times and it is easy to miss things but nothing was obvious. D**n the cobras, I will try again someday.
Battery D (Denver) is very close by and has an interesting tunnel. Photos of it are in this trip report:
corregidor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=threads&action=display&thread=410
A sketch of Battery B (Boston) shows three tunnels were dug along the road east of the battery. Today this road is still there but just a path now. I have zig zagged all along that little hillside and found absolutely nothing. (Very small search area). That is unusual because even if a tunnel is closed, evidence of it usually still exists such as broken chunks of concrete, rubble from digging lying around, or a concave in the hillside etc.
There is no doubt that a post war bulldozer was working on this hill above these tunnels as there is a photo of it. It could have covered or destroyed these tunnels but even that idea does not make sense to me. The hillside is not high and the road along the base of the hill is not covered with soil or rocks. GPS confirms that the road is exactly where it was pre-war. In short, I have found no evidence of these tunnels and it baffles me as to why.
Battery C (Chicago) constructed a tunnel starting in early 1942. This tunnel still exists although today it is collapsed 10 feet inside the entrance.
The unit history of Battery M (Mobile) is quite interesting in its description of the two entrance tunnel they constructed. It is described as being a maximum of 30 feet underground and passing completely through the hill. At the west end of Kindley Field where some of Battery M’s 50 cal AA guns were located, only the nearby eastern end of Denver Hill fits this description. The unit history text confirms this location when they describe feeling a large dynamite cache explosion two hundred yards away. We know where this explosion was.
On two occasions I have wandered around here looking for this tunnel and found no sign of either entrance. Vegetation is thick at times and it is easy to miss things but nothing was obvious. D**n the cobras, I will try again someday.
Battery D (Denver) is very close by and has an interesting tunnel. Photos of it are in this trip report:
corregidor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=threads&action=display&thread=410