Central Luzon – Philippine-Sailor

Category: Central Luzon

This category describes different geographic places in Central Luzon. I live in Olongapo, Zambales and the provinces of Central Luzon are close and are visited most often by me. So much material from this area will be shown here.

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) […]

“Hour of the Great Rescue” Sundial Monument and Museum

“Hour of the Great Rescue” Sundial and Museum (Great Raid at Camp Pangatian, Cabanatuan City Memorial Shrine WWII) January 30, 1945, Memorare, I’m starting this webpage in four sections, it will take time. This is Section One, 6 images from Wikipedia Commons, shot when the memorial was still in good shape. Section two is […]

The Cabu Bridge during the Great Raid

The actions by the Filipino Guerrillas and the support of the Filipino People were an outstanding demonstration to fight for freedom. That is what draws me back to this bridge to remind me of WWII History. I participated at the 80th Anniversary of the Great Raid at the American Memorial in Cabanatuan nearby and had […]

Great Raid, ABMC, 80th Anniversary, Cabanatuan, 1 Feb. 2025

The Great Raid 80th Anniversary Commemoration was conducted on the 1st Feb. 2025 because it was a Saturday. The Commemoration was organized by the American Battle Monument Commission at the American POW Memorial in Cabanatuan. Friends and I participated and took these pictures. It was well done, well participated and it was a solemn event. […]

Gen. King, Bataan Surrender Memorial Marker

Bataan, Gen. King Surrender Marker A01. This image came from the former Battling Bastards of Bataan (BBB) web pages from when it was established. The Gen. King Marker sign is gone for many years now and I don’t know the reason. —————————————————- This Bataan Surrender Memorial Marker was established here in Lamao by the Battling […]

Death March Marker Zero in Mariveles 15 Dec. 2014

#05 picture shows the Iconic Marker of a Fallen Soldier or Serviceman with WWI helmet which the Allied Soldier wore in the Philippines in the defense of the islands. —————————————— The Researcher and spouse of the book Relentless Hope visited the Philippines and we teamed up to visit historical places on Luzon. We stopped at […]

A Quick View of the Quinawan Point Area, 2024 June 29.

#07 Battle of the Points, Quinawan Point Area, 2024, 29 June. Map 13: Japanese Landings on Bataan from Battle of the Points, US Army, The Fall of the Philippines, Chapter XVII. https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/USA-P-PI-17.html ————————————————– This is the area of the WWII Battle of the Points Area, so it interests me. After my visit to Corregidor, I decided […]