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Ze761. Grande Island in Subic Bay from the Olongapo (north) direction in 1911; wow, it is really built up already. Are they captured Spanish buildings, did the Marines built them or is it all new stuff opening Fort Wint by the US Army? I speculate, maybe from all three! This is an Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis picture from the U.S.M.C. Archives.
Did you know? The Spanish fled here during the Spanish American War, chased by the Filipinos and did not want to surrender. A German warship arrived and assisted the Spanish. The leader of the Filipinos, Gen. Aguinaldo complained to Commodore Dewey. The commodore sent up a US warship which told the German one to beat it and forced the Spanish to surrender.
Did you know: That after the collapse of South Viet Nam, Grande Island was used by the US Navy, as a temporary camp for the Indochinese refugee boat people?

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Ze760. Grande Island in Subic Bay from a west direction, perhaps from the USMC Hell Hill 4.7 Inch Guns Battery at Macmany Point on Redondo Peninsular, around 1908 to 10. This is an Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis picture from the U.S.M.C. Archives.

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Ze754a. A section of the 1:50000 Olongapo City Map

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Ze756. The USMC guns were not the first artillery on Kalaklan Point. This gun was emplaced by the Filipino Resistance, Independence Fighters in 1899 on Kalaklan Ridge. It fired on US Navy Ships. The gun still exists and is located in San Francisco. This picture is from Randy Anderson and is posted here; look up and read this exiting Subic Bay historic story at this URL:

http://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2208/inch-ordonez-subic-grande-island

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Ze755. USMC Officer and former Enlisted Man Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis sitting on a captured gun in the Spanish Fort Felipe in Cavite, circa 1902. Thank you, Sir, and your descendants. This picture came from the Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis Picture Collection in the U.S.M.C. Archives.
U.S.M.C. Lt. Col. Earl Hancock Pete Ellis has become a legend in the Corps, with a tragic end; look it up in Google.

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Ze754. This is a March 2019 picture of Kalaklan Point, the bottom end, ocean end of Kalaklan Ridge. I believe the rock formation matches with the last picture called “Star Point”.

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Ze753. USMC, Star Pt., Olongapo, circa 1909; where is it? This picture came from the Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis Picture Collection in the U.S.M.C. Archives.

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Ze752. The last picture zoomed in and marked up: 1= The Coaling Station and it looks that it is covered. 2= Drydock Dewey. 3= the causeway that is the present Manila Ave. and Rizal Ave. in present Olongapo City. 4= the all important unique looking Olongapo Naval Station Admin Building. In this collection we have 2 pictures of this building (not this album). 5= The Barracks. 6= The Spanish Gate got to be there but I cannot make it out.6= the other 6, my mistake, could that be the Chapel? 7= the present Dewey Ave. This picture came from the Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis Picture Collection in the U.S.M.C. Archives.

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Ze751. One thing I experienced myself, from Kalaklan Ridge one gets a great view of the Olongapo area, but is a very great picture from 1909. This picture came from the Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis Picture Collection in the U.S.M.C. Archives.

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Ze750. The job is done, the U.S. Marine Corps established a 6 Inch Gun Battery on Kalaklan Ridge for the defense of the Olongapo Naval Station, circa 1908-10. In this picture we barely can make out Grande Island at right and at left the area that later became the Subic Bay Naval Base Magazine area. This picture came from the Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis Picture Collection in the U.S.M.C. Archives.