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Rainy Day, Karl’s Family, 2007 Aug. 9th

Rainy Day, Karl’s Family, 2007 Aug. 9th Rowena Reyes Welteke, Karl Welteke, Karl-Wilhelm Welteke, Karla Welteke, Manilyn Reyes Welteke, at Barrio Barretto,Manilyn Reyes, Randy Reyes ———————————————-   Zg774.  Manilyn, 18 now, Rowena’s cousin, has stayed with us since she was 14, is left. She goes to college now. Emi, right, is our house help and […]

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Grande Island, ex Ft. Wint 2024 Visit

#23 shows us two musketeers, I got my ARMY shirt on for celebrating the history of Fort Wint here on Grande Island. Randy is going to get some image shots for the authors of the book: Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt. —————————————————- My friend Randy Anderson, a […]

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Subic Bay News as of 2024

  Zg766. This is one of 5 images I shot on the 31st of March 2024 (Easter Sunday) from the ridge behind my house which I like to call the Hotel Marmont Ridge. The pictures are of Barrio Barretto and Subic Bay, shot from right to left and they are uploaded here in high resolution. […]

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Battery Grubbs

Zg717. 110329h Battery Grubbs & Family. See, I even brought my family to Corregidor, this is my asawa (spouse in English) and she poses at No 2 Gun of Battery Grubbs, this was on the 29th of March 2011. ————————————————- Battery Grubbs was a 10 Inch Coast Artillery Battery with 2 guns on Corregidor. The […]

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Corregidor Cine and Movie Theatres

Zg688 YMCA, Corregidor.  Is the new YMCA Building on Middle side where we believe movies were shown. This photo was provided by John Moffitt. ————————————- Established this album to replace watermarked images  about the Cine and Other Movie Venues in Fort Mills on Corregidor. Also, to post some of my recent pictures of the “Cine”. […]

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Carabao Island, Ft. Frank, 2009, a little Adventure.

Zg679. Karl is coming and going several times under the wall, to get all my gear under the wall in a relative dry condition, camera etc. This is a John Moffitt image. ———————————————– Sunday, 15th Nov. 2009. Based on the experience yesterday (no sea swells, light NE wind and a low tide) we ordered a […]

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Carabao Isl., Ft. Frank, saved pics

Zg652 Battery Koehler 1945 from Tony Feredo. After the Allied reoccupied the island. ——————————————- I established this album with pictures of Carabao Island, Fort Frank which were used in this Corregidor Forum page, click here:   These pictures were watermarked, or did not open or were thumbnails (So, I wanted to save them) etc. ——————————————- Zg653 […]

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Anastasia Harman’ WWII POW Pictures.

Anastasia Harman’ WWII POW Pictures. Zg650.  Flight nurse with injured men inside a C-47, accommodated to injured patients. This episode 42 picture is from Anastasia Harman’s web pages, click here:  Album description: Anastasia Harman. A researcher of POWs in the Philippines. Her Great Grandfather was a POW in the Philippines, hence interested! She posts biweekly […]

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Sinalang Cove, Ft. Frank Water Source

Zg633. Sinalang Cove as viewed from a boat that just departed from Carabao Island in 2012, the former Fort Frank, part of the Manila Bay Defense Command. Fort Frank got its water from there. —————————————— Friends and I are interested in history and we wanted to check on the Fort Frank water source story. The […]

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Barrio Barretto Bypass Road

  Zg619. (#41) image is the ridgeline where the road cut is made deeper and the material is used for fill to build the road further on. ———————————— In our larger Subic Bay and Olongapo City area a road construction has been started which is called “Barretto Bypass”. Many of people that live here are […]

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