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On the morning of 2 May, the
Japanese opened a 2,600 round barrage against Battery Geary. At 1627
hrs, with the battery crews in action, a 240 mm round penetrated the
centre magazine, detonating a massive explosion of 40 tons of
explosives that utterly destroyed the battery, leaving a large
crater where the magazine formerly was.
One of the guns remains ready
to fire to this day.
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