The Battery Geary
Battery Geary is a battery of six 13-ton. It is a 12-inch mortar. This battery, when pinpoint by the Japanese troops, was subjected to a heavy gunfire. Just one strike by a 240mm shell, which detonated the magazines of the Battery in May 1942, prove to be the most crippling fire for the period of the whole siege of Corregidor. This shelling tossed the mortars anywhere, one to a distance of 150 yards, another was blown through three feet of armored concrete wall into the next powder magazine of Battery Crockett. Large chunks of steel were blown far as the Malinta Tunnel, while 27 of the battery crew were killed instantly.
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