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Media Category: Central Luzon

This Central Luzon category will encompass all the provinces of this Central Luzon Region

08 Battle of the Points, Quinawan Point Area, 2024, 29 June 08

#08 Battle of the Points, Quinawan Point Area, 2024, 29 June. Map 16: Anyasan and Silaiim Points Area 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

07 Battle of the Points, Quinawan Point Area, 2024, 29 June 07

#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

01 Battle of the Points, Quinawan Point Area, 2024, 29 June 01

#01. Battle of the Points, Quinawan Point Area, 2024, 29 June. This is a Google Earth graph of some of the WWII Battle of the Points area for your orientation.

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Zg729. (-07) this is the Bacolor Cockfighting Arena, partially buried by the Mt. Pinatubo lahar and it still stands today, just east of the east Megadike and just north of the Olongapo-Gapan Road.

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Zg733. (-21) A view of Bacolor Town proper south of the Olongapo-Gapan Road that is the way it looked then. It has come back to life now! We see the famous church that is buried up to the upper windows, which serve now as doors. In the future I will make a separate album of […]

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Zg732. (-20) In this picture you can clearly see why the traffic to Bataan and Zambales stopped and you can see exactly where this was because the Bacolor Cockfighting Arena is visible and it stands there today, although partially buried. The DPHW is building a temporary bridge over the Pasig Potrero River which is now […]

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Zg731. (-16) A view of the Bacolor area north of the Olongapo-Gapan Road that is the way it looked then. It has come back to life now! I don’t have a picture but I saw a Mercedes Car lifted up high and pushed against the roof and the lahar under it kept it there.

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Zg730. (-12) this is the beginning of the new Olongapo-Gapan Road in Bacolor in 1995; it is at the same place only a few meters higher now. The new official name of this road is Jose Abad Santos Ave, a true Filipino Hero! Notice the Bacolor Church at right in a distance.