Carabao Isl.-Ft. Frank – Page 9

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The island was part of the Manila and Subic Bay Harbor Defense Command.

Zg645 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg645. This is the Fort Frank Fresh Water Storage Dam in the Sinalang Cove Valley, left is the down-river side; right is the up-river side, now filled to the rim with small rocks. Next day the bombardment continued. General Moore’s after-action report stated of this continued bombardment: “A 240mm shell hit at junction of the […]

Zg644 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg644. This is a US Army project completion report 20th June 1932 of the completion of a Fresh Water Storage Dam in the Calumpang Reservation for Fort Frank; with a picture of the dam zoomed in. With fuel stocks running low a new attempt was made on March 9 to repair the water line. Under […]

Zg643 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg643. This is a US Army project completion report 20th June 1932 of the completion of a Fresh Water Storage Dam in the Calumpang Reservation for Fort Frank; with a picture of the dam. Battery Ermita drew blood again on March 6 when it shot down a Japanese plane on reconnaissance over the fort. It […]

Zg642 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg642. We found the Fort Frank Waterdam in the Sinalang Valley. I needed to rest and my friend John Moffitt looked around but did not find anything noteworthy. A further cut in the food issue at Fort Frank and the other forts came on March 2 when each ration was cut to three-eighths normal issue. […]

Zg641 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg641. We found the Fort Frank Waterdam in the Sinalang Valley. Starting at 9:30 a.m. on February 20 Fort Frank along with Fort Mills and Hughes was subjected to a shelling that saw a round hitting each fort on an average of one a minute until late that afternoon. The next day was peaceful as […]

Zf205

Zf205. Japanese amphibious assault boat formation, very similar we organized our assault boat formation during my time in the Navy, the 1960. This picture came from Japanese archives found by the authors’ team of the book: Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt