Fort Drum (Philippines)
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Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island, is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, south of Corregidor Island. Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", the rein
Fort Drum in 1983, with the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) in the background
El Fraile Island before the construction of Fort Drum, c. 1909
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14-inch guns and turret undergoing testing at Sandy Hook Proving Ground before installation at Fort Drum
Fort Hughes
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Fort Hughes was built by the Philippine Department of the U.S. Army on Caballo Island in the Philippines in the early 1900s. The fort, which part of the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, was n
Fort Drum (Philippines)
…113th Combat Engineer Battalion were chosen to lead the attack on Fort Drum because they had earlier led the successful assault on a mortar battery at Fort Hughes on Caballo Island. Rather than attempting to break into the battery, they had used white phosphorus mortar rounds to ignite a 2,500 US gallons (9,500…
Fort Hughes was armed with 14-inch (356 mm) M1910 guns like these shown firing at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California in 1931.
The fort had several 12-inch (305 mm) mortars sited at Battery Craighill