Original Battery North No. 1 Gun Panama Mount near Infantry Pt. from fots2
Like so many other people have said, fots2 does outstanding work!!!!!!!
He had these pictures posted before in this forum but they are now blocked by Photobucket because a unreasonable change in their display policy.(fots2, let me know where and I repost them there also)
Fots2 sent these pics to me and gave me permission to post them here again, thank you fots2. Before I do let me paste here what he said in the previous reply yesterday:
Karl,
This Panama Mount is not one of the 2-155mm Semi-Fixed Emplacements. You saw the original Battery North which may (or may not) have been part of Battery Kysor in later years. (Info conflicts regarding Battery Kysor).
The reason I know it is the one and only Panama Mount of Battery North is I found a sketch in a Corps of Engineer’s “Report of Completed Works” document. It showed me where Battery North was located and I knew it was not something we were already aware of.
When you are back there again, use the nearby wall of Building 609 (II) as a reference point and walk NW approximately 75 ft or so. You will see a wide flat depressed area just before the road. The two semi-fixed emplacements would have been here. I have never found any physical evidence of them but as batteryboy has mentioned in the past, some of them had no permanent footprints anyway.
Move out to the road and walk East. As you round the corner, look inland and you will see the Panama Mount you show in your photos. I had cleaned a portion of it three years ago and it looks roughly the same now. By the way, when at this Panama Mount, you are only about 10ft or so from the first entrance of the three-entrance underground magazine along the road.
When I originally posted the photos in 2015, here is the text that went with them:
“From the Semi-Fixed Emplacements, I walked east a couple minutes until I came to the first entrance of the 3 entrance magazine.
I had gone too far but now knew my search boundary. It is such a small area here that if that gun position existed, it must be very close. I back-tracked checking out each crater/depression. In the side of one of them was a little piece of vertical concrete just barely sticking out. I cleared away dirt and roots but was not sure what was until I uncovered the embedded rail. Here is a Panama Mount.
This gun position faces NW towards the cliff and I would estimate that it is a 180 degree mount judging from the surrounding terrain. On the right side of the mount is a very defined trench cut into the ground going down to the road north of the position. It took over an hour to clear off a 10 to 12 foot section of the outer ring. Even now, 95% of the Panama Mount is still buried. For those who know the area, it is located between the two Semi-Fixed Emplacements and the 3 entrance magazine”.
The 1941 Emergency Defense Map shows only an Observation Post at Infantry Point so no fixed guns were mounted there during WWII. I will send some photos and a couple maps to you via e-mail which you can post if you wish.
See you on The Rock again someday. I’ll be the guy in a tent at South beach looking up at the Inn’s "Wine & Cheese” crowd.
Here are the 9 images that fots2 sent to me:
Z1fots087. Map of the Infantry Point area of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots088. Drawing of the Infantry Point area of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island of Battery North from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots089. Area of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots090.Part of the Panama Mount outer concrete ring with embedded rail of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots091.Part of the Panama Mount outer concrete ring with embedded rail of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots092.Part of the Panama Mount outer concrete ring with embedded rail of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots093.Part of the Panama Mount outer concrete ring with embedded rail of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots094.Part of the Panama Mount outer concrete ring with embedded rail of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.
Z1fots095.Part of the Panama Mount outer concrete ring with embedded rail of Battery North, Gun No. 1 near Infantry Point of Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island from John Moffitt aka fots2.