LARGE CRATER ON DECK OF FORT DRUM

During late April and until the surrender, Fort Drum was almost continually shelled from Cavite , hundreds of shells hitting it on some days. Everything on the upper deck except the turrets was swept off, the AA guns, cage, mast, searchlight, etc. 

 

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