☰Battery Way and Gun Batteries

The coastal gun batteries are among the most visceral reminders of Corregidor's defensive role. Battery Way, equipped with four 12-inch mortars, and Battery Hearn, which mounted the island's largest gun — a 12-inch disappearing rifle — are the most visited of the surviving emplacements. The guns themselves remain in place, rusted and enormous, set into concrete platforms half-consumed by jungle. Walking among them gives a sense of the scale of the island's fortifications and the ferocity of the siege that overwhelmed them.