File:Whitman-B-From-Above.jpg

Summary
This image, taken in early Spring, 2010, looks northwesterly down into Battery Whitman, Pit B, Ft. Andrews, Peddocks Island, Boston, MA. The photo was taken from atop the tall bank next to the mortar pit. It is intended to emphasize the depth of the Ft. Andrews mortar pits and the fact that such an emplacement would have been virtually impossible to hit with ship-based fire from a ship standing offshore.

Today, the pit is heavily overgrown, but up through WW2 its banks were totally bare. The viewing slits of the pit's data booth, built into the opposite pit wall, with its steel door standing open, are visible at center-left. The abutment of the portal from this pit back through the magazine toward Pit A is just barely visible at extreme left-center. The picnic tables on the pit floor were hauled in by local kids, who apparently enjoy partying in the pit.