We start moving towards the north, "towards the ice plant," I am told. The patrol puts us on a road that crosses past the Hospital and then  in front of the parade ground on Middleside, and as we move down the road we can see Lt. E, one of our officers, standing alone out in the open, to the left of the ice plant. He has his field glasses to his eyes, and is intent on his inspection of something that interests him. We shout at him to take cover, but he does not seem to hear us. Then, as I am looking at him, he falls, dead. Clearly a Japanese soldier, hidden somewhere in the landscape through his field glasses, perhaps at the ice plant, was looking back at him. 

Through him I learn to avoid any lingering affection for the Corregidor landscape.

We fan out to cover the ground ahead of us, and come upon an ammunition dump on high ground east of and above the ice plant. The storage area faced NW and SE, and all the shells are stacked with their projectiles pointing north-west into the hill. As we move across this storage area we can see that the Japs have wired the dump with explosives. We quickly move back and report the find. 

Chet Nycum

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This photo was also submitted by John Gainer, Greenville TX, whose grandfather (John Thomas Gainer) was an artilleryman stationed at Ft. Mills in the 1909-1911 period.