North Luzon – Page 2 – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: North Luzon

The category of North of Baguio will encompass all the provinces in that region.

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Zf852. This is a prewar image of infamous L-shaped pier where the POWs had to enter the small boats to be transferred to the Japanese ships for movement out of the Philippines. The pier is high and the boats were low; the POWs had to jump or were pushed by the Japanese soldiers causing numerous […]

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Zf851. This photo combination, very interestingly shows how the land-marks from a 2022 Google Earth image (the middle one) with two different images from about 1945 (the bottom and the top one) compare. This work was done by the main researcher, John Duresky, of the authors of the book: : RELENTLESS HOPE – A True […]

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Zf850. This appears to be an old British map of San Fernando, La Union, perhaps it was produced prewar or during the war.

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Zf849. The authors of the book: Relentless Hope-A True Story of War and Survival report this image of San Fernando, La Union to be shot in 1945. This is a great shot of the Poro Point Peninsular neck. Notice the two camp sites at right, one of tents, the other barracks.

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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 Oryoku Maru POWs in Dec. 1944.

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Zf847. The authors of the book: Relentless Hope-A True Story of War and Survival report this image of San Fernando, La Union was shot 1n 1945. or maybe it is prewar. We are looking north.

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Zf846. A zoomed in section of a US Army 1944 map of San Fernando in La Union; it shows the neck of the Poro Peninsular which was the location where the Oryoku Maru POWs transshipped to other ships in San Fernando, La Union. This map image has been marked-up by the authors of the book: […]

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Zf845. A US Army 1944 map of San Fernando in La Union; this is the location where the Oryoku Maru POWs transshipped in San Fernando, La Union.

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Zf380. This image is the description for the previous image, Villa Verde Trail in WWII from the 32nd Inf. Div. in the Philippines.

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Zf379. The description for this picture is in the next image! This is an image from NARA, a collection of about 150 images about the Battle of Villa Verde, half of the images are only the descriptions. This is an image of my 7th segment of 9 pictures and 9 image descriptions plus two maps.