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1983 Photo USS New Jersey Passing Fort Drum |
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Starboard beam view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) passing between CORREGIDOR (background) and FORT DRUM as she enters Manila Bay.
Date: 3 Jul 1983 Camera Operator: PH2 PAUL SOUTAR ID: DN-SN-83-09891 Service Depicted: Navy |
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Plaque on Fort Drum Dedicated to Lt Colonel Lewis Spencer Kirkpatrick Commander Fort Drum 1941-42 |
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Thanks to Mary Kirkpatrick Dailey for allowing us to share this photo. |
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Fort Drum |
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WW II Era Photo Of Explosion at Fort Drum at The Time It Was Recaptured |
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Fort Drum 1945 |
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Infantry guard every vent and opening a jap might shoot through. Courtesy The Coast Artillery Journal July-August 1945 " Breaking The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bay |
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Fort Drum (1946) |
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Courtesy Of Paul Tice |
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Battery Benjamin K. Roberts |
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The battery had two six inch guns M1908M1 in Babette Carriages M1910. The battery had a unique two-level casemate with one gun mounted above the other. This battery was exposed to direct Japanese shelling in 1942 and subjected to direct fire by an American cruiser in 1945. As a result the lower gun was destroyed and casemate pierced in several places. Photo and Text Courtesy of Terrance McGovern. |
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Fort Drum |
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Courtesy Of Fred Hill |
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Fort Drum |
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WW II Era Photo of Fort Drum After It Was Recaptured |
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Fort Drum |
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Inside Turret of Main Gun |
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Fort Drum |
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Inside Turret of Main Gun |
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Fort Drum |
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Photo Courtesy of Rusty Russell. Rusty's father Capt Charles E. Russell USN was born in Manila in 1918. After graduating from DeLa Salle College in 1939 he went to the U.S. to join the Navy and help defend his home from the expected Japanese Invasion. As a carrier based fighter pilot he was able to help liberate his homeland. After the war he remained in the navy and served two tours at USNS Sangley Point Cavite R. P. |
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Fort Drum |
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Courtesy Of Fred Hill and Paul Whitman |
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Fort Drum |
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Battery Roberts |
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Headstone MSGT John F. Christopher Battery E 59Th CA 1879-1965 |
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Came Across headstone while visiting the cemetery at Fort Worden |
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