some questions

Nuyt:

In our discussion in the old forum about ex-USN ordnance going to the NEI during World War II, you directed me to your site that has some photos of one of the U.S. Mark IX 4-inch/50cal guns emplaced at the mouth of the Suriname River, formerly in Dutch Guiana. First of all, do you know which specific battery is shown, by name? Please redirect me to that site (URL), because I have lost the citation.

Some questions:

1. I have since learned that there were two WWII batteries that defended that river. At least one of them, Batterij Amsterdam, confirmed as armed with Mark IX 4-inch/50s, was on the old West Indies Company Fort Amsterdam, where the Suriname and Commewijne Rivers merge (looks like an inverted Y, with the river thereafter flowing directly north into the Atlantic Ocean). The second one was Batterij Purmerend, but whether it too was at Fort Amsterdam or closer to the mouth of the river and the ocean, I do not know. Do you? How far south from the ocean do the two rivers merge? (expressed in kilometers is fine)
2. Did ex-USN Mark IX 4-inch/50s also arm Batterij Purmerend? If not, what size guns?
3. How many ex-USN 7-inch guns were installed at Ambon, NEI, two or three? Maybe a pair and a spare? Do you have the battery name there?

Thanks,

Nelson