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Battery Crocket is located about 400 yards to the southeast of the centre of the barracks and across the golf course. These monsters of the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery had a 360-degree traverse and could hurl a 900  pound projectile more than 16 miles.  But they were of little use during the siege. On 24 April, a 240 mm howitzer, which had been moved from Cavite because it's high trajectory could seek out the guns in their protective pits, scored a direct hit and knocked out both of Crockett's guns.