Topside Battery Geary
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Battery Geary had two mortar pits with three magazines one at each side and one between the two pits. Armament was eight 12 inch (305mm) mortars four M1890 on M1896M1 carriages in Pit A (right) and four M1908 on M108 carriages in Pit B (left). These could fire a 1,000 lb (454.5 kg) deck piercing shell or 700 lb (318 kg) high explosives shell 8.3 miles (13.5 km) in any direction. Maximum bagged charge weight was 63 lb (M1908). Minimum rate of fire capability was one round per minute up to one in 45 seconds. Standard crew was 4 men per mortar. The vertical plunging trajectories of these mortars made them ideal for use against an enemy entrenched on higher ground in Bataan. In 1941-42 Geary was manned by troops of Battery H-59th Coast Artillery under Capt. Ben King later Capt. John W. Davis III. On Jan. 6, 1942 a Japanese bomb collapsed an incomplete shelter nearby, killing 31 and wounding 3. On Jan. 26 -29 Geary opened fire upon and helped defeat Japanese forces that had landed at Longos Kawayan Point Bataan. This marked the first time since the civil war that large caliber American sea coast artillery fired on an enemy. (Taken from Battery Geary's location marker)
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