60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
The 60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense unit of the United States Army.
60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Fort Mills was the location of US Major General George F. Moore's headquarters for the Philippine Department's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the largest seacoast fort in the Philippines. Most of this Coast Artillery Corps fort was built 1904–1910 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Taft program of seacoast defense. The fort was named for Brigadier General Samuel Meyers Mills Jr., Chief of Artillery 1905–1906. It was the primary location of the Battle of Corregidor in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941–42, and of the recapture of Corregidor in February 1945, both in World War II.
The Harbor of Manila and Surrounding Areas
12-inch (305 mm) mortars of Battery Way in 2007
12-inch (305 mm) gun on a disappearing carriage, generally similar to Batteries Cheney, Wheeler, and Crockett
12-inch (305 mm) M1895 gun of Battery Hearn circa 2010