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Philippine Coast Artillery Training – Ft. Wint

Philippine Army Coast Artillery, #5pic, Fort Wint, Grande Island. This is Gun #1 of Battery Hall, a 2006 pic from the www. —————————– Although Coast Artillery and Coast Defense was mostly identified to the US 59th and 60th CA regiments and the Philippine Scout’s 91st and 92nd CA regiments, there was a Philippine Army coast […]

Karl has returned, back in Subic Bay now!

Picture 01, drove by Mt. Mayon. —————————————– Karl has returned, back in Subic Bay now! Every May we make a family trip to the San Bernardino Strait, the annual Fiesta in my wife’s village happens then. I have posted 5 albums into my Facebook page: “Bon Ot Big, Matnog”. The URL is: https://www.facebook.com/Welteke/ Here are […]

Guiuan as a Naval and Air Base in WWII

Guiuan as a Naval and Air Base in WWII By Ricardo Trota Jose This is an article published in the Journal of History Vol. LXIX {January-Dece4mber 2023}: 50-79 2023 The Philipp0ine National Historical Society, Inc. The article has 15 pages which include 17 images and you can read it with this URL, but you got […]

Guiuan, Naval Supply Depot 1945

06 Guiuan USN Base 1945 —————————————————– This place is full of history and that is why I like to go there. I shot these pictures in 2024. Google AI Overview During World War II, Guiuan in Eastern Samar served as a massive US Naval Base (Base 3149) and a critical naval supply depot, established in late […]

US returns to Subic to recover POW remains

Oryoku Maru Recovery Ops.05. AI generated picture of the imagined situation of the sunken Oryoku Maru on the Olongapo Harbor Bottom. Randy Anderson says this: The image accompanying these posts are reconstruction that illustrates the present-day wreck site of the Oryoku Maru in Subic Bay, based on compiled scuba diver reports, site descriptions, and known environmental conditions. […]

Middleside Barracks, ex Fort Mills, on Corregidor

Middleside Barracks from fots2 05 2007 aerial view of the barracks ———————————————————– Built in 1915, Middleside Barracks was a modern structure for its day. I have never seen any sort of blueprints for the barracks so I cannot label any locations or room functions. Toilets and showers are obvious. Only one room had any indication […]

Battery Grubbs visited by VFW Post 11447, Feb. 2026

LAS17 picture shows the bridge which leads to Battery Grubbs gun control station at the rear of the battery, it was much damaged during WWII. ———————————————— Battery Grubbs was a 10 Inch Gun Battery in Fort Mills on Corregidor. I enjoy visiting this battery because ist entrance looks like a European Fortress and one […]

The Pacific War Memorial on Corregidor Island & Area 2026

No 8 Image No 01 to No 11 Pacific War Memorial pictures give you the Key Features and the Significance of the Pacific War memorial. The Dome:A large, open-roofed structure with an altar beneath it, inscribed with the words: “Sleep, my sons, your duty done, for Freedom’s light has come”. Visited and viewed by VFW […]

Philippine-American Friendship Park 2017 and 2026

01 PHIL-AM Park, this is a 2017 picture of the Phil-Am Park, Topside on Corregidor. ————————————————- The Philippine-American Friendship Park is now located Topside on Corregidor Island, the ex Fort Mills, next to the Cine and south of it. It has a nice stature of a Filipino and an American soldier supporting each other in […]

VFW Post 11447 (Subic) visited Corregidor 2026.

Joe09 Corregidor picture shows VFW11447 arriving inside of the North Mine Dock on the North Shore of Corregidor with Villa Carmen boats. ———————————————– Members, spouses and friends of VFW Post Paul P. Busek 11447 visited Corregidor to observe the Liberation First Flag 81st Anniversary of the 503d PIR raising the US 48Star Flag on […]