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Post by oozlefinch on Feb 6, 2013 13:40:37 GMT 8
There was a concrete infantry tunnel near Battery Point. I don't know how many men used it during the siege, but I do know that the men assigned to SL No.1 did use it. I spent an hour looking for it back in '89, without success. Does anyone have any additional information about it, and has anyone found any evidence of it?
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Post by oozlefinch on Dec 10, 2020 13:52:02 GMT 8
Dummy me. I just finished reading Glen Williford's wonderful new book. In it he said the infantry tunnel was 100 feet above the water. I was looking for it down around the elevation of the SL. Has anyone looked for it 100 feet up the hillside?
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Post by fots2 on Dec 10, 2020 18:15:08 GMT 8
Good day Oozlefinch,
Glen is correct in that the center of the tunnel is 100ft above sea level as shown on the 1936 map with 5ft. contour intervals. Searchlight #1 is about 50ft. above sea level. If you walk straight up the hill then you will be going in the wrong direction to find where the tunnel entrance was. Head in about a 10:00 direction, around the left-side of the hill straight inland. It is approximately 350ft. from SL1 to the tunnel.
So, what is there today? The simple answer is that if you did not know a tunnel was there then you would just think this is any other part of the hill. If I use my imagination then I can see a concave in the hillside but the entrance is completely buried. Even the concrete walls to the entrance are gone or also buried. There is a small stream below the entrance and on the opposite side of the stream, partly up the hillside, you can find some broken concrete. The map does not show any structure there so I can only guess it may have come from the tunnel explosion. Further up the side of the ridge close to the North Shore Road there was an air-shaft for the tunnel. Here you will find a few pieces of broken concrete but again, no actual evidence of the air-shaft.
I have been there a few times and the area is not very big to explore so I don’t think I missed anything significant. What really makes me confident of what I saw is that I was using a GPS unit which has a Geo-referenced copy of the 1936 map. What this means is that I can stand anywhere on Corregidor and see on the GPS what was there in 1936. (within several feet of course). Amazing huh?
Hope this helps.
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Post by oozlefinch on Dec 11, 2020 2:14:49 GMT 8
Well Fots, if YOU say there's nothing there to see, there isn't. Thanks for the info.
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Post by fots2 on Dec 11, 2020 16:04:44 GMT 8
No problem Oozlefinch, anytime. Its good chatting with you again.
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