– This picture is from the Valley Center, a community in San Diego, who has this webpage about their veterans: http://veteranletters.blogs.com/valley_center_veterans/2005/01/william_davidso.html
These are the officers of the vessel F.S.-182, in the service for the U.S Army in the Pacific during WWII. The web page says that they transported the bodies of the 139 American prisoners of war executed by the Japanese on December 14, 1944 at the Puerto Princesa POW camp to Subic Bay. That is important to me, to know, that those tragic US. Service men traveled thru the place I call home now. I will treasure this place even more now.
I believe this is a view of the Maquinaya Beach, which was the Navy Supply Depot in 1945 and maybe all the way to 1950. Maquinaya Beach is now Barrio (Barangay) Barretto. I came here to shoot that Kalaklan Ridge to compare it with this picture. But the WWII picture is not clear enough with that ridge line but I am convinced this is Maquinaya Beach, now a day’s called Barretto Beach.
This is the full text from the above web page:
In 1982 men and women who served in the Merchant Marine during war time were declared veterans. William Davidson served in the Pacific Theater during WWII and is qualified as a veteran of both WWI and WWII. Engineering Officer William Davidson is seated on the far right of the other officers of F.S.-182 at Subic Bay in the Philippines on August 22, 1946. The F.S.-182 was an Army supply ship in the Philippines during WWII.
The only voyage of the F.S.-182 in my records id from Puerto Princesa on Palawan to Subic Bay. The cargo included the bodies of the 139 American prisoners of war executed by the Japanese on December 1944