Editing Corregidor (section)

===Battery Geary===
Battery Geary was a battery of eight 13-ton, [[12-inch coast defense mortar|{{convert|12|in|mm|0|adj=on}} mortars]].  Defiladed in a hollow on Corregidor's Southern coast it was fairly well protected from Japanese shelling. On January 6, 1942, while under the command of Capt. Ben Ewing King, a Japanese bomb landed in a makeshift temporary bunker killing 31 of Battery Geary's NCOs and canoneers.

Early in the morning of January 26 Battery Geary opened fire on a unit of Japanese soldiers near Longaskawayan Point on the west side of the Bataan Peninsula during the [[Battle of Bataan|Battle of the Points]].<ref name="jw">{{cite book |last1=Whitman |first1=John |title=Bataan: Our Last Ditch |date=1990 |publisher=Hippocrene Books |location=New York |isbn=0870528777 |pages=262}}</ref>  This was the first time fixed coastal artillery had fired at an enemy since the close of the Civil War. Although the fire was considered accurate and effective, Col. Bunker decided to replace Capt. King and he was sent to perform the duties of fort XO and to command HQ Battery on Ft. Drum. He was replaced at Battery Geary by Capt. Thomas W. Davis. Later, this battery was pinpointed by the Japanese artillery and was subjected to heavy shelling.  One direct hit by a 240-mm shell, which detonated the magazines of this battery on May 2, 1942, proved to be the most crippling shot during the entire siege of Corregidor.  This explosion tossed the fifty ton barrel of the mortar around, one to a distance of {{convert|150|yd|m|-1}}, another was blown through three feet of reinforced concrete wall into the adjoining powder magazine of Battery Crockett.  Large chunks of steel were blown as far as the Malinta Tunnel, killing 27 of the battery crew instantly. Also, one mortar still had a live round in its breech, and it was in the process of firing the shell when the magazine was hit. That live anti-personnel round still lies within the breach of the mortar.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}