Batteryboy or others,
I found a couple things today and I was wondering if you could help me determine exactly what they are.
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First is at Cape Corregidor or what everyone just calls Battery Hanna.
The intact gun positions and magazine between them are labeled on the 1932 map as X-F-1. The map symbol for that position shows two guns and a structure between them that we know is the magazine.
That map also shows an X-F-2 position with two guns and a very short structure between them.
- Is the “veranda” the most northerly gun of that two gun group at X-F-2?
- If it is, then the southerly gun position of X-F-2 is destroyed. Just to the south of the veranda is a big crater and broken concrete so this position may have had a direct shell or bomb hit. While walking this area today I noticed a dark narrow gap in broken concrete. After cleaning up the entrance I shone my light into it. I can see an underground structure with still vertical concrete walls although the roof has mostly collapsed.
I looked for another entrance and found a deep hole in what turned out to be caused by the roof collapse. It was big enough for me to stick my hand down and blindly take photos. I see concrete walls, rocks on the floor and the roof broken in the middle of the room and collapsed down onto the floor.
I have never heard anyone mention this structure (mini magazine?), are you aware it is there? I would estimate it is at least 20 ft long.
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Second is between Hanna and Rock Point.
There are two underground magazines and a panama mount near a sharp bend in the road.
- Was this panama mount for temporary use or did this location have a battery name? (I thought I read somewhere that there was a Battery Rock Point, is this it?).
- The mount was for a 155mm gun I assume?
- Were both magazines for the single gun mount?
- While my GPS was averaging I wandered around the area. Huge shell craters and mounds of soil are everywhere. There also appear to be trenches around. One leads to a depression in a small hill/mound where there is broken concrete embedded in the hill. Upon checking out the top of the mound I found a short rectangular concrete pillar with a 4 inch metal pipe sticking up through it. Looks like an air vent to me. Since this gun already had magazines, did this battery also have an underground bunker nearby? (It is on the same side of the road as the panama mount).
One final question, what is the difference between a “Field” gun and a “Siege” gun?
Thanks for your assistance gents.