Manila Bay – Page 161 – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: Manila Bay

For the 4 islands in Manila Bay that used to be the Manila Bay Defense Forts, Corregidor-Ft. Mills, Caballo-Ft. Hughes, Fraile-Ft. Drum, Carabao-Ft.Frank.

Zo598

Zo598. USS Trout (SS-202) was credited with sinking 23 enemy ships, giving her 87,000 tons sunk, and damaging 6 ships, for 75,000 tons. She received a Presidential Unit Commission for the Gold patrol (her 2nd.) During her first ten patrols she made 32 torpedo attacks, firing 85 torpedoes, including 34 hits, 5 confirmed premature detonations, 5 confirmed duds, and 25 suspected duds. She was also involved in six battle surface actions and was attacked with depth charges eight times. She was reported overdue on 17 April 1944 and presumed lost on her eleventh war patrol, with all 81 hands. LCDR Frank Wesley (Mike) Fenno (pictured) was awarded the DSC for the Gold cruise, and the entire crew were awarded the Silver Star by the Army. Trout was lost on its 7th patrol when under the command of LCDR A. H. Clark. Fenno had transferred to Pampanito. He survived the war and retired as a Rear Admiral.

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Zo594. USS Trout (SS-202) at Pearl Harbor in early March 1942, unloading gold bars which she had evacuated from Corregidor.

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Zo593. USS Trout (SS-202) approaches USS Detroit (CL-8) at Pearl Harbor in early March 1942, to unload a cargo of gold that she had evacuated from the Philippines. The gold had been loaded aboard Trout at Corregidor on 4 February 1942.

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Zo595. USS Trout (SS-202) returns to Pearl Harbor on 14 June 1942, after the Battle of Midway. She is carrying two Japanese prisoners of war, Chief Radioman Hatsuichi Yoshida and Fireman 3rd Class Kenichi Ishikawa, survivors of the sunken cruiser Mikumawho had been rescued on 9 June. Among those waiting on the pier are Rear Admiral Robert H. English and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The district ferry Nihoa (YFB-19) is in the left background, just to the right of Trout’s jack. Two .30 caliber Lewis machineguns are mounted on Trout’s sail, flanking the periscope shears.

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Zo592. Five stone plaques with quotes by the President, were part of this President Quezon Memorial, outside the Malinta Tunnel North Hospital entrance. The plaques were moved also; this is one of them.

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Zo591. The small plaza, the little flat area outside the North Hospital entrance, “Facing the outlet, directly ahead, another hill sheered up precipitously”. This was a quote from Amea Willoughby’s book.
Up to 2005 existed a President Quezon Memorial here. One of these days I will start a page for him in this forum. His stature was moved to Filipino Heroes Memorial, maybe in that year.

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Zo590. Convalescents and wounded Corregidor Defenders relaxing outside the Malinta Tunnel Hospital North-Entrance on the 13th April 1942. Photo from John Moffittt, aka fots2 in the Corregidor.proboard.org forum.
John added the picture and this sentence, also in the above forum page #4
“Phantom. A photo to go with your text. Here is a look at the little flat area outside the North Hospital entrance taken April 13th, 1942”.

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Zo411. The North Entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel. This is a Feb. 2006 image, it is graced with the picture of “Phantom” (Corregidor Forum Fame), Tom Aring a former Pease Corps Volunteer. He visited Corregidor often and that is where we met many times. He died from a road accident in 2015 and by his wishes the family put his ashes to rest near the Eternal Flame, Topside on Corregidor in Feb. 2016. He was a dear friend, I miss him.

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Zo410. North Entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel from the inside. This picture was shot in Feb. 2004

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Zo409. This is a Jan 7th 2005 image of the North Entrance of the Malinta Hill Tunnel leading to the so-called 1000 Bed underground hospital, part of the Malinta Hill Tunnel. The President Memorial of President Quezon was located here until about 2005 or 2006.