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Zo802. A cropped section of the 1:50000 San Antonio, Zambales map, Sheet No. 7072 IV. It shows all the relevant landmarks.

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Zo807. Here is the signature of the Fort Wint Commanding Officer Col. CAC Napoleon Boudreau. The last paragraph of his report lists all the large caliber weapons he had under his command. I see (4) four 155mm artillery pieces were at the rifle range on the way to Subic. That is now the suburb Barrio Barretto, where I live now. I did not know that, that is news to me!

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Zo806. Here is a copy of the two actions connected to the Suesta Point Light House area. These paragraphs are copied from the Fort Wint action report, covering the time from 8th Dec to the 25th Dec 1941. The report was submitted by the Fort Wint Commanding Officer Col. CAC Napoleon Boudreau. I will post the whole report to Fort Wint and Olongapo forum pages, one of these days.

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Zo805. A close-up Google Earth image of the area between Sueste Point and Shark Point, where the Oryoku Maru was aground for some time. I marked the picture with the relevant information.

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Zo804. A combination of 3 images put together by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. The team said this about these 3 images:

Top one is a photo provided by Tim Hampton, Air Group Eleven archivist showing the beached Oryoku Maru near Sueste point. Bottom photo was an earlier estimate of a possible line that the men firing from battery Jewel on Fort Wint may have taken firing at the barge approaching Sueste lighthouse noted in the attached report. Middle photo shows where the shot from December 1941 would have coincidentally intersected where the Oryoku Maru was beached in December 1945.

The above paragraph is connected to their research, writing a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt.

Their research lists two actions connected to the Suesta Point Light House area. One has a Japanese plane shot down and crashing into the water around the lighthouse and another has a barge being sunk around the lighthouse. We have looked everywhere on wreck maps of Subic Bay and can’t locate any marker that matches either wreck. You might want to pass this on to your dive friends to see if they can locate either wreck. Would be a great find.

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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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https://people.com/human-interest/8-dead-air-ambulance-crashes-philippines/

Mandatory Credit: Photo by FRANCIS R MALASIG/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10596835k)
Investigators look on a burnt Lion Air aircraft at Manila’s international airport, Philippines, 29 March 2020. According to reports, a Lion Air plane that was taking off at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport burst into flames and crashed onto the runway with eight people on board.
A Lion Air crashed in Manila, Philippines – 29 Mar 2020
Zo405.
https://people.com/human-interest/8-dead-air-ambulance-crashes-philippines/

The news article above reported this on March 29, 2020 04:30 PM

Senator Gordon, Philippine Senator and Head of the Philippine Red Cross was among the 8 victims.

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Zo406. Senator Richard Gordon

A traditional plaque exchange ceremony was held onboard between (from left) local officials Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority’s Wilma Eisma and senator and former tourism secretary and former chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Richard Gordon, as well as Ovation of the Seas’ Captain Flemming Nielsen

The above picture came from this URL:

https://www.ttgasia.com/2018/06/13/asias-largest-cruise-ship-makes-double-maiden-call-in-philippines/

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Ze797. Commemoration Ceremony of the 75th Anniversary of the sinking of the Oryoku Maru picture by the SubicNewsLink; both Nation’s Flags are displayed.

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Ze799. Commemoration Ceremony of the 75th Anniversary of the sinking of the Oryoku Maru picture by the SubicNewsLink.
Tracey Betts, a representative from the United States Embassy in Manila, lays a wreath at the wreck site of the MV Oryoku Maru during a remembrance ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 15, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the hellship. Oryoku Maru, carrying nearly 300 American prisoners of war, was accidentally sunk by American fighter planes on Subic Bay, Philippines on December 15, 1944.