A concrete battleship Fort Drum was built on a small rocky islet originally known as El Fraile Island, strategically located at the mouth of Manila Bay just south of Corregidor Island. The Spanish ...

Bettmann//Getty Images The surrender of U.S. forces on the island of Corregidor made Fort Drum’s position untenable. The fort's guns were quiet for decades, but things quickly changed after the ...

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, Fort Drum was able to inflict heavy casualties at the forces invading Corregidor, despite undergoing heavy shelling from Japanese howitzers in nearby ...

Corregidor (Fort Mills) was the largest of the four harbor defense fortifications in Manila Bay, that also included El Fraile Island (Fort Drum), Caballo Island (Fort Hughes), and Carabao Island (Fort ...

Fort Drum, the “Concrete Battleship,” located on the former small, rocky El Fraile Island, 7 miles southeast of Corregidor, must be unprecedented in the history of military fortifications.

history professor described the transfer of two World War II gun barrels from Corregidor Island to Baywalk near dolomite beach in Manila Bay to create a replica of Fort Drum and its heritage cannons.