I live in the Manila (Marikina to be exact). I make yearly visits to Bataan and Corregidor and I will be back
this March together with my Coast Defense buddies from the US
to do more explorations and research. The owner and editor of corregidor.org,
Paul Whitman is a good friend of mine and I am a regular contributor.
I have relatives who fought
and lived thru the war years. My mother is from Negros and my
father is from the Lingayen area and both witnessed combat
first hand. I have an uncle that fought in Bataan and lived thru
the Death March and numerous veteran friends and acquaintances.
Fort
Hughes
Photos April 2000. Located on Caballo
Island. The fort's magazines and other concrete
structures of the batteries are there. All old wooden building already
gone. Wharf is still original and a big chunk already got destroyed
via a typhoon in 2002. No memorials except for a few markers wherein
bones of Japanese soldiers were re-buried years after the war.
Battery
Craighill
There are two pits, that were armed with
M1912 12-inch Seacoast Mortars (two mortars in each pit). I will provide
you with the battery history later.
Battery
Gillespie
One 14-inch M1910 on a 1907 disappearing
carriage. This battery is perched on top of Caballo Island.
Battery
Woodruff
Third gun battery on Caballo Island.
