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In this photo on the left, you can see the position of the saluting battery that was once down at the eastern edge of the Tennis Court (Page 25) has now been relocated at the summit and has the mobile steel covers slid over these guns - evidenced by the shadows cast.  It is unknown exactly when this photo was taken, but at an educated guess - sometime between 1943 to 1945. The entrance and track is not visible due to the low resolution of this photo.

In this 1954 photo, the entrance is just barely visible as it is obviously slowly getting over grown, although on closer inspection there does appear to be an occasionally used track leading from it.

By overlaying another one of the aerial photos on Google Earth, we can then depict where the track once was (red line).

Next by removing the photo and the overlaying the “1 in 12 Sheet”, we can now see exactly where this entrance was and you can see it goes under the second (towards the south) saluting battery pad and heads towards the corner of one of the underground rooms in the known tunnel complex. Martin, Vern Rule, Jeanette Rule, and I, spent quite a bit of time examining these walls and all the corridors, but could find no evidence of hidden  

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