Permatang Damar Laut Coastal Pillboxes

Permatang Damar Laut Pillboxes (15 December 2018)


Permatang Damar Laut Coastal Pillboxes (GPS: 5.28001, 100.25684 and 5.27864, 100.26002) are small fortifications that were erected along the coast of Permatang Damar Laut, on the southern part of Penang Island. I have so far discovered two, and I believe there could be more. There pillboxes are built to face the sea. They are located right on the coast.

Of the two pillboxes that I come across, one of them is in an advanced state of disrepair, and appear like it might recede with the tide into the sea at any time at all. It is located next to a disused pier that is also much broken down.

The other pillbox along the Permatang Damar Laut coast that I have found is still quite well preserved. It is right behind the fence of the Penang International Airport. The area is sandwiched between the airport perimeters and the shore itself.

I do not have any information over who built the two pillboxes that I have come across. As they appear to be different from the rounded pillboxes built by the British, I guess that these might have been built by the Japanese to defend the coast from Allied Forces. But this is just a guess, and I would need more details to verify this matter.

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Permatang Damar Laut coastal pillbox (28 February 2016)


Here I am standing in front of the other pillbox on the Permatang Damar Laut coast (28 February 2016)


The pillbox as seen from a different angle (28 February 2016)


Plane leaving the Penang International Airport flies over the pillbox (28 February 2016)


The pillbox is located just beside the sea, along the Permatang Damar Laut coast (28 February 2016)

Permatang Damar Laut Coastal Pillboxes is on the Map of Pillboxes in Penang

List of Pillboxes in Penang and Pillboxes in Malaysia