Manila Bay – Page 89 – Philippine-Sailor

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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.

Zg653 Discussion about expensive traveling

Zg653 Discussion about expensive traveling. EXO put this in but it got watermarked.

Zg658 Ft. Frank recapture, 1 pilot killed, dmether

Zg657 Ft. Frank recapture, dmether

Zg656 Carabao Isl, the calm entrance, fireball

Zg656 Carabao Isl, the calm entrance, fireball. He said, he met them they looked bird nests.

Zg652 Battery Koehler 1945 from Tony Feredo

Here’s a photo of Battery Koehler during the retaking in 1945

Zg640 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg640. Sometime on our walk down-river in the Sinalang Cove Valley, it was not so easy. I was hurting from my fall and I’ll be 82 years young in two month and we were sweating like pigs. Loss of the gasoline supplies heightened Fort Frank’s critical fuel problem. To conserve fuel, Colonel Boudreau called for […]

Zg639 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg639. We are on our walk down-river in the Sinalang Cove Valley, from just under the east end of the Kaybiang Tunnel, to find the Fort Frank Waterdam. A few stretches of the river valley was this easy. On February 18 the Japanese concentrated most of their fire power on Fort Frank. At 9:30 p.m. […]

Zg637 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg637. The opening, left in back, is the place where we come down, one can see a thin water hose strung high across the river bed. The following day the Japanese included Fort Frank in their bombardment. From this time on, all the Manila Bay forts were to suffer from Japanese guns on the Cavite […]

Zg636 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg636. This is the east end of the new Kaybiang Tunnel, part of the Ternate-Nasugbu Road and indeed we found a way down to the Sinalang Cove Valley, more or less right there at the entrance, going down to the right. The tunnel has become a frequent visited tourist spot! On January 31, 1942 Battery […]

Zg635 Fort Frank Water Source

Zg635. This was our GPS track to find the Fort Frank Waterdam in the Sinalang Cove Valley as recorded by my friend John Moffitt; he spells it Sinilang. We had plans to visit Carabao Island on the 9th of Jan. 2024 and John suggested we find the water dam, by dropping down into the Sinalang […]