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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.

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Zc759. This is the capture a search for Subic Bay in the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project; six (6) images popped up which I am going to use here. This picture came from the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project.

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Zc758. Many submarines are in a nest in the new Submarine Base in 1945 at Subic Bay. This picture came from the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project.

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Zc763. This is a Google Earth image covering the area of the WWII Submarine Base; some of the roads still can be recognized. In 2006 things started to change here because of the Hanjin Shipyard development. By 2008 that road was usable and people started flowing in. This area later became Gains Beach and Sailors and Marines loved to come here, far away from the MPs and Shore Patrols. During my time in the early 2000s Mr. Gaines had passed away and the Miami Club from Calapandayan claimed some of this sub base area. Note the deeper water in the image and on the map in the previous image.

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Zc762. This is the Subic Bay, and this is a section of an old 1:50000 map which shows the streets of the former 1945 Submarine Base. Newer maps don’t show those streets anymore. And for many decades this area was no longer accessible by vehicle, only on foot or boat. Most sections of that road were grown over during my walking time.

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Zc755. Submarine S35, I’m sure, was a boat belonging to one of the Submarine Squadrons out of Subic Bay or Cavite. It looks like two boats are meeting in Subic Bay underway. I believe these 4 pictures are dated 1926. This picture was sent to me by my shipmate Chuck Thompson.

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Zc754. This is the Navy Yard in Olongapo 1926; it seems the yard was located exactly where the Subic Bay Ship Repair Facility (SRF) was established during the Viet Nam War. That is the area of the Rivera Wharf now-a-days; 4 submarines are in a nest alongside the wharf. This picture was sent to me by my shipmate Chuck Thompson