COMMENTARY NOTES CONCERNING HUDSON HILL'S MAP B
 

MAP POINTS

Map Point 1 - Fortified cave

Map Point 2 -  Even in February 1945, the South Shore Road was "what used to be a roadway." It was by then a twisted, barren slope of loose sand, boulders and debris. A destroyed truck remained parked on it near Noname Pt. The truck concealed a gun pit dug underneath. 

Map Point 3 - Fortified cave

Map Point 4 - Fortified cave; Hill says that from the gun pit on the tip of the point it was possible to see and fire directly into the natural cave at Point 4, which would yield a reported 7 Japanese dead.

Map Point 5 - Fortified cave / Barricaded Tunnel - Hill says the opening of the barricaded tunnel at point 5 could be seen from a vantage point on Topside, but that it was possible to fire into the tunnel mouth at only a very sharp angle. A trench capable of holding about 12 men had been dug across the interior of this tunnel, allowing them to stage a short-lived Banzai attack.  This trench and barricade accounted for the Japs being able to withstand a tremendous volume of fire being put into the entrance. Examination of the tunnel, after Lt. Crawford's successful attack, found a total of 47 dead Japanese, 41 rifles, and a badly damaged heavy machine gun.

Map Point 6 - Fortified cave - Small Cave at Unknown Pt: The small cave at point 6 could not be seen, nor could it be fired upon by the LMG’s still on Searchlight Point.

Map Point 7 - Fortified tunnel entrance - Fortified tunnel entrance. Hill says that "This tunnel led back to the underground magazine of Crockett and Wheeler Batteries," which is just entirely wrong. It was the entrance to Battery Monja. Inside, it branches to the left (towards the gun at Point 8) and to the right (towards the gun's powder and shell rooms.) There was no access tunnel between this tunnel and any other Battery. As Hill hasn't been inside the tunnel, indeed, no American was able to enter the tunnel as it remained firmly in Japanese control until 1 Jan 1946) he is being fanciful. 

Map Point 8 - Concrete fortifications - most likely Battery Monja itself.

Map Point 9 - Concrete fortifications

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As far as we have seen, there is no formal naming of the geographical point which lays between Searchlight Pt. and Wheeler Pt. American maps do not label it, and consequently it has been referred to variously as "Unnamed Pt" and "No Name Pt." A wartime Japanese map, which does have it labeled, translates phonetically to "Mona", which clearly is a reference to Monja Point. This introduces only further confusion, as Battery Monja is on Wheeler Pt,, not on Monja Pt.  Accordingly, we shall refer to the area as "No Name Point." 

Geologically speaking, there are no natural caves on Corregidor. It is an island of igneous rock, the volcanic rim of a long extinct parasitic cone. All the so-called caves were man-made tunnels. Hill can't be faulted for this, as it's an easy habit that everyone has fallen into at one point or another.