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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lt. Leo A. Boelens, a Davao POW Escapee

Zg600. Lt. Leo A. Boelens, the Davao Penal Camp Escapee, who of the 10 US Service Men, did not make it home. He fell on the Philippine Battle Field in 1944. —————————————- Lt. Leo A. Boelens who did not make it home. Recently when I was posting material about the Great Raid in Cabanatuan and […]

Philippines MIA Search and Recovery Project

Zg595. Philippines MIA Search & Recovery Project —————————————– Philippines MIA Search & Recovery Project Welcome to the Philippines MIA Search & Recovery Project. We are building a community of people from all over the world interested in the search and recovery of MIA from United States, Philippines, Japan, and all other countries lost in the […]

115 Naval Construction Battalion, 1943-1945

Zg480. Naval Construction Battalion 115 lands at Subic Bay, the 8th of Feb. 1945. ————————————————————————————- 115 Naval Construction Battalion, 1943-1945 This is the 115 Naval Construction Battalion, 1943-1945 Unit Book during WWII. They also served in Subic Bay, hence my interest! This book is published by and for the men of the 115th Battalion. Photos other […]

Ex Subic Bay Naval Base & SBFZ Stories #1

Zg465. (-03). Waterfront Road, by my boat landing and in front of HQ Building # 229. In 1962 we were always anchored out! The new Hellships Memorial is just dead ahead, maybe 100 feet. A place for various stories of the former Subic Bay Naval Base which is now the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, […]

War in Subic Bay and Olongapo 1941

Zd869. This is a 1983-02-14 Grande Island picture from NARA via Wikipedia with Battleship New Jersey BB-62 and a LSD or LPD passing each other. Now that is a Navy picture, it makes a sailor like me, proud as heck; did diving work under that Battle wagon in Subic and served on two LSDs. This […]

Pampanga Tidbits

Zg425. (-Images #30 to #32) are 3 close-up images, looking down to the Pasig Potrero River from the east lanes of the bridge. It seems the iron sheeting; perhaps put in place to stable the river bed level was not good enough. I speculate they have to something similar in the near future, but better […]

Olongapo History, Album No.1

——————————————- Olongapo is an important place, I know it since 1962. The US Navy and Olongapo were ONE ENTITY for decades. It has become my home. It was, it is, important in my life. Hence it needs its own albums! ——————————————- A friend asked me about an Olongapo school name, so I started researching, this […]