Corregidor - Battery Cheney

Battery Cheney (ca. 1910) was armed with two 12-inch M1895 guns. It was named after 1st. Lt. Ward Cheney, killed in the Philippine–American War 1900.

Battery Cheney was held by Japanese forces at the time the 503rd PIR landed on Topside in 1945. Excerpts authored by Edward M. Flanagan, Jr. WORLD WAR II Magazine, July 1988:

"The area outside was swept by Japanese machine-gun fire. (...) Japanese ran out of the Cheney Battery gun pit and, with bayonets, attacked the men lying on the ground."

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz
• Photos: PH1 David C. Maclean, U.S. Navy