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Zc772. In June 1972, the Grayback carried a team of Navy SEALs into the coastal waters of North Vietnam as part of Operation Thunderhead. This was the last attempt during the Vietnam War to rescue American POWs held in North Vietnam.

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Zc764. It looks like, that in 1945; some Naval Officers took the Red Cross Lady on a sightseeing trip in Subic Bay. This is on the Mt. Redondo side of Subic Bay; the boat is lying off near the Submarine Base. We are looking south and right of the Lady’s head is Grande Island. This picture came from the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project.

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Zc770. This is NAVSTA Olongapo & Olongapo Town 1928 from NARA via Wiki Vividley. Before WWII the town or village of Olongapo, under the administration of the U.S. Navy, was located at, what after WWII became the Naval Station (NAVSTA) Subic Bay. After WWII what was left of Olongapo was moved further inland and across a drainage canal. Then in the 1950s, with the addition of the Naval Air Station Cubi Point and the Naval Magazine area, the Naval Base Subic Bay was established. The former Naval Base is now the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) as of 1992.

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Zc769. The sub sailors had humor and had this “Hangover House” is located a little inland. Based on my hiking experience those slopes certainly look like the Mt. Redondo slopes. Please don’t tell the Political Correct People, who are in power now, that our sailors had a “Hangover House” in 1945, maybe they will condemn them retroactive. This picture came from the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project.

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Zc768. We see a submarine and a float plane but I can’t make out the direction we are looking at in Subic Bay, 1945; the picture is not clear enough. This picture came from the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project.

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Zc767. I’m sure that the 1945 Submarine Pier was abutted against this embankment, the area of the former Submarine Base became Gains Beach and Miami Club Beach (remember the Miami Club in Subic City you old Sea Dogs).

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Zc766. One bridge is left in the former 1945 Submarine Base on the west side of Subic Bay. To my diver friends, that is Bill Loudermilk trekking along with me. This is a 2006 image, the date imprint on the image is wrong.

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Zc765. In 2006 I almost made the same shot as the last 1945 picture, at right one can see a couple of buildings and a crane, the Hanjin Shipyard is being created.

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Zc761. This is an image of the same slopes on Mt. Redondo as in the last picture, only a little more than 60 years later. I marked in some landmarks.

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Zc760. A Red Cross Lady on the Mt. Redondo slopes 60 years before friends and I were crawling around the same slopes. The picture shows a female visiting a Submarine Base in Subic Bay and at a location which was very inaccessible until 2008. A few friends and I were the lone visitors in that area for many years but the geography of that location caught my attention. This picture came from the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project.

So along with the 1945 images I’m also presenting some of my images of my hikes in the same area for comparison.