Manila,-Subic Bay Islands and Forts

Category: Manila,-Subic Bay Islands and Forts

After the United States took over the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish-American War they fortified Manila Bay and Subic Bay. Five islands became forts, Caballo Isl.-Ft. Hughes; El Fraile Isl.- Ft. Drum; Carabao Isl.-Ft. Frank; Grande Isl. In Subic Bay, Ft.-Wint; Corregidor Isl.-Ft. Mills is handled as a separate category. I have visited all of them and herewith will try to share some of my pictures of these very interesting and historical places.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Oryoku Maru POWs transshipped in San Fernando, La Union

Zf848. To me this is the best picture of the bunch, it shows the whole San Fernando, La Union area and the authors marked the picture with the relevant geographic points and the timeline of the transshipment of the POWs in Dec. 1944. —————————————————– The horrendous tale and time table of the Allied POWs […]

Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt

Zf192. Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt, this is the front cover. A new book about Army Lt. Britt serving in Fort Wint, (Grande Island in Subic Bay) and in the Battle of Bataan during WWII. He also survived three Hell Ships and being a POW in the […]

Grande Island, ex Fort Wint, Update Visit 2021-01-22

Zd856. Number 2 Gun of Battery Hall. The present management of the Grande Island Resort appears to have even less resources to keep the Coastal Defense Gun Batteries of the former Fort Wint presentable and accessible. ———————————————- After being absent from the Philippines for 15 months, I had the desire to visit the island again. […]

Army Lt Chester K Britt, Hell Ship Oryoku Maru, Ft. Wint, Olongapo

Zo691-01. 1941 Olongapo, Chet Britt Sr.at the Olongapo Fleet Boat Landing and Waiting Shed. It looks like the Army Coastal Defense Force of Fort Wint on Grande Island in Subic Bay used the same boat landing area as the US Fleet in the Olongapo US Naval Station. This image was provided by John Duresky. ————————————————– […]

Salvage of wreck on Corregidor 2008

Zo636. A WWII wreck, sunk during the siege of Corregidor, is salvaged on Corregidor Island, Manila Bay in 2008. In this picture we Morrison Hill at left and on Corregidor, then the hills around Mariveles Bay where the wrecks of the USS Canopos AS-9 and the George Dewey Drydock rest. ———————————————– Not all wrecks have […]

Manila Bay Harbor Clearance

Manila Bay Harbor Clearance Zo625. One of many sunken ships, wrecks then, blocking the Manila Harbor in WWII. Image, curtesy of Pacific Paratrooper webpages. ——————————————— Eye Witness Account – Clearing Manila Harbor, lets start with this story. This is condensed from a story written by Rear Admiral William A. Sullivan and appears in “The Pacific […]