Subic Bay – Page 108 – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: Subic Bay

This category encompass, the former Subic Bay Naval Base,-Naval Station,-Naval Air Station Cubi Point, the former Olongapo Naval Station,-the prewar Olongapo Town and the present Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).

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Ze421. (-05) I start this album with 5 maps or images; this is a 1981 Subic Bay Naval Station facility image of the Kalaklan Point area in Olongapo and the Subic Bay Naval Base Kalaklan Gate area. My nice Uncle Sam provided it.An aerial view of the buildings and sites near the water.

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Ze420. (-03) I start this album with 5 maps or images; this is a 1977 Subic Bay Naval Station facility map of the Kalaklan Point area in Olongapo and the Subic Bay Naval Base Kalaklan Gate area. A good friend, Chad Hill, provided it.

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Ze419. (-01) I start this album with 5 maps or images; this is a recent Google Earth image of the Kalaklan Point area in Olongapo and the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) Kalaklan Gate area.

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Ze427. -14 this is the Olongapo City Cemetery at the Kalaklan Point; I use this route sometime to get on top of Kalaklan Ridge here.

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Ze426. (-13) this is the famous Kalaklan Point-Curve and Olongapo City Cemetery.

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Ze425. (-12) this is the famous Kalaklan Point-Curve and Olongapo City Cemetery. This Kalaklan Point-Curve is a dangerous one; many a motorbike rider laid down his machine here!

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Ze424. (-11) this is Kalaklan Point in Olongapo City, Subic Bay, 2019-03-14. The busses park there until the time to pick up workers on the base (SBFZ).

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Ze418. This is the last shot; about 1 and ½ km more we quit the walk and decided to home to Subic Bay, we seen enough. At right, we believe, is the area the GIs of the 32nd Div called the Punch Bowel. If you like to learn more about the Battle of the Villa Verde Trail check out this URL: http://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1694/villa-verde-trail-balete-dalton?page=1 T his is the new Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya Road which follows the old Villa Verde Trail down along the North-South Ridge which runs parallel east and next to the Ambayoan River. This picture was shot on the 13th of June 2019.

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Ze356. The former Transient Personnel Unit (TPU) a friend of mine was the OIC at one time and told me, during his time he had 64 legal holds. Receiving unit and billeting office.

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Ze355. The former Main NEX and Commissary building and area by the numbers: 1= is a huge supermarket called “Duty Free”-it is located next to the former NSD; 2- gas station, 7/11 store and a pizza place; 3= the Mitsubishi car dealership; 4= is the brand new Toyota car dealership (nearby, off camera, Ford and Chevrolet also have dealerships here; 5= is the new Subic Expressway (about 10 km long) off the former base and connects with other Luzon express ways (right now it is widened to 4 lanes); 6= is a full service Petron gas station; 7= is the road to Binictican Golf Course and housing, the road is also widened and lengthened to Cubi Point; 8= was our own McDonald and had just opened a few years before base closure and closed with the base closure ( don’t be sad we have now 2 McDonalds in the SBFZ); 9= was our former Main NEX and Commissary building (it is a big Supermarket with a small department store section, I go shopping here) ( many other commercial enterprises opened shop around and in this area); 10= was our own NEX gas station and car service shop (it is still a gas station and car wash, I use it all the time).