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Zd896. This is one of 5 images of the grave/tomb site of Ernest J. Gaines, a legend in Subic Bay. These pictures were shot on the 31st of Jan 2021. The grave plaque is removed; the tomb was entered and closed again. So, most likely the story, the previous lady told me, is true that the remains were brought to Ilo Ilo. The man in the picture helped me find the tomb. He said that one time he and others stopped people monkeying around on the tomb. As you can see houses have been built all around the tomb now, since the opening of the Hanjin Ship Yard Road, many people have settled here.

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Zd895. This is one of the first ladies I asked about the tomb site. She told me that the remains of Ernest J. Gaines have been removed and were brought to Ilo Ilo. She also said, that she has a pictures of his bones in her home across the bay in Matain Village. Where I found her was the wrong spot and I continued the search.

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Zd894. This is my GPS track on Google Earth of my walk in the former Gains Beach area to find the Tomb of Ernest J. Gaines again.

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Zd893. This is the grave/tomb plaque of Ernest J. Gaines on the 23rd of June in 2012; I went by his tomb again and it seems his grave plaque got cleaned up or was replaced.

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Zd892. This is one of three pictures of Ernest J. Gaines Tomb in the Gains Beach area on Redondo Peninsular in Subic Bay on the 4th of Aug. 2006. Very few people were residing there then but my hiking partners and I wanted to see the tomb.

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Zo801. A Japanese ship under attack in this very clear picture of NAVAL STATION Olongapo on the 19th Nov. 1944.
This picture is curtesy of Tim Hampton, CV-12 Hornet Air Group Eleven archivist.
This picture is also uploaded in high resolution in my Flickr album, if you like to download it. This is the URL of the image, you got to follow the Flickr steps to download:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/50098462156/in/album-72157674621084888/

It was made available to me thru the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman magazine.

You can learn more about the research team project from this URL:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2275/army-chester-britt-ship-oryoku

This attacked ship is not the infamous Oryoku Maru, it looks more like freighter and it was attacked on the 19th Nov 1944 and not in Dec. 1944 when the Oryoku Maru was attacked and sunk in Olongapo. The Corregidor forum has a very interesting page about the Oryoku Maru, in pictures about the last few days of the ship before it got sunk:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1601/oryoku-maru

Zo801. A Japanese ship under attack in this very clear picture of NAVAL STATION Olongapo on the 19th Nov. 1944.
This picture is curtesy of Tim Hampton, CV-12 Hornet Air Group Eleven archivist.
This picture is also uploaded in high resolution in my Flickr album, if you like to download it. This is the URL of the image, you got to follow the Flickr steps to download:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/50098462156/in/album-72157674621084888/

It was made available to me thru the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman magazine.

You can learn more about the research team project from this URL:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2275/army-chester-britt-ship-oryoku

This attacked ship is not the infamous Oryoku Maru, it looks more like freighter and it was attacked on the 19th Nov 1944 and not in Dec. 1944 when the Oryoku Maru was attacked and sunk in Olongapo. The Corregidor forum has a very interesting page about the Oryoku Maru, in pictures about the last few days of the ship before it got sunk:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1601/oryoku-maru

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Zo689. Perhaps a 2020 image of the Port of Subic Bay, before WWII “The Port of Olongapo”.

This Subic Bay Port Picture came from the subicnewslink. Your definitive news source in and around Subic Bay Freeport. This is the URL:

http://subicnewslink.blogspot.com/2020/06/50-of-subic-freeport-firms-now.html

Note: The picture is older, I see the medium floating Drydock is still afloat. It has sunk a few years ago.

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Zo138 Three POWs escaped from the sinking Oryoku Maru as reported by Capt. Ramon Magsaysay (later the President of the Philippines). This document was found and was provided by Bub Hudson. Amazing, I never knew that. Thank you Olongapo and area Guerillas.

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Zo140 Three POWs escaped from the sinking Oryoku Maru as reported by Capt. Ramon Magsaysay (later the President of the Philippines). This document was found and was provided by Bub Hudson. Amazing, I never knew that. Thank you Olongapo and area Guerillas.

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Zo139 Three POWs escaped from the sinking Oryoku Maru as reported by Capt. Ramon Magsaysay (later the President of the Philippines). This document was found and was provided by Bub Hudson. Amazing, I never knew that. Thank you Olongapo and area Guerillas.