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Hellships Memorial Webpage is active again.

This is the home page. ——————————————————————— Hellships Memorial Webpage is active again. Rediscovered it in 2025, click here for the URL! ————————————————————————— It has a list of about 13 sunken Japanese ships with POWs and their history in individual web pages. Here are two! -Oryoku Maru: Hell Ships Memorial #2, Oryoku Maru The Oryoku Maru was […]

Hell Ships Memorial Plaques in Subic Bay 2025-08-05

#HSP21a pic is the plaque, called WWII Hell Ships Roll Call of Nations and remembers all nations which suffered from the Japanese aggression. This is how it looked when it was dedicated in 2009. ————————————————– I noticed new plaques have been placed at the Hell Ships Memorial in Subic Bay and decided to document all […]

Mt. Samat & Shrine Random Stories & Pictures, 1st Album

C0. The Mt. Samat Cross in 2008. ———————————————————– This album is for random pictures and stories about and around Mt. Samat. ———————————————————— Mt. Samat Visit in the Rain 22 July 2025 I DECIDED TO SEND THIS AGAIN WITH MORE MEAT! The Corregidor.org webmaster was here from Australia. We had “Orange Rain Warning” for several days […]

Palsabangon, WWII Historical Marker

#A01 & A02 pictures are Google Earth graphs which show where the Palsabangon WWII Historical Marker is located. This is #A01 picture. —————————————————— Every year the family drives to Matnog, the ferry port to Samar on the North Shore of the San Bernardino Strait. Studying the route I saw the indicator for this […]

Bon Ot Big to Genablan Walk 2025-05-19.

#11 Image #05 to #11 images are of the stretch of road from Bon Ot Big to the point where I descend to Barangay Genablan Oriental. We see the lovely coconut areas above the San Bernadino Strait, the road concrete laid has almost reached Genablan, the mouth of the Genablan River and Genablan Occidental on […]

Capas National Shrine, POW Camp O’Donnell, 2024-12-19

#W53 to #W78 pictures are of the obelisk, the wall with the names, the plaques and the grounds next to this Wall and Obelisk WWII Death March Memorial. The Capas National Shrine, located in the area of the former WWII POW Camp O’Donnell, was visited by friends on the 19th Dec. 2024 and we […]

Death March Markers, Capas to O’Donnell, #106 to #112

#W01 to #W05 images are of DMM #106 at the Capas Railroad Station and #W02 is a Google Earth graph, marked up for the DMM location, from the Capas Rail Road Station to the POW Camp O’Donnell. The sponsor for this Death-March-Marker (DMM) is the Battling Bastards of Bataan Association. ————————————————————- After the Allied POWs, […]

Joint Tribute To All Filipino Heroes, 2025-04-10

#V08 image is the Death March Boxcar at Capas National Shrine. Filipino American Memorial Endowment, Inc. (FAME) has a page for this boxcar, click here: ———————————————————————- Joint Tribute To All Filipino Heroes at the Capas National Shrine on the 10th April 2025. It was only one of many commemorations held in the annual Philippine […]

Capas Railroad Station, Death March Landmark

#01. The Capas Philippine National Railroad (PNR) Station before WWII, captured from the Internet. ———————————————————— The Capas Railroad Station was a landmark in the WWII Death March. From Wikipedia: Upon arrival at the San Fernando railhead, prisoners were stuffed into sweltering; brutally hot metal box cars for the one-hour trip to Capas, in 43 °C (110 °F) […]

Grande Island, ex Ft. Wint Visit 2024-12-11

Battery Hall on Grande Island ———————————————————— The researcher of the new book “Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt” came from the USA to visit; an Australian friend wanted to make his first visit, so, we all teamed up and visited Grande Island, the ex Fort Wint. It is […]