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).

Zg494, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg494, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg494, NCB-115, S.B. 1945. Naval Construction Battalion 115 arrived in Olongapo. Olongapo showed all the ravages of war. Much of the town had been bombed or burned. Standing among the great trees were 155 mm. howitzers, ‘Long Toms” and tanks.

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Zg493, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg493, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg493, NCB-115, S.B. 1945. Naval Construction Battalion 115 arrived in Olongapo, debarking in Subic Bay. To me that looks like a Bunker used by the Japanese. Working without let-up, we got our equipment ashore and off up the rood through the hills to Olongapo Naval Bose, hearing on all sides the shout “Victory, Joe!”

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Zg492, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg492, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg492, NCB-115, S.B. 1945. Naval Construction Battalion 115 arrived in Olongapo, debarking in Subic Bay. Wow, that looks like one of the LST bow doors. Working without let-up, we got our equipment ashore and off up the rood through the hills to Olongapo Naval Bose, hearing on all sides the shout “Victory, Joe!”

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Zg491, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg491, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg491, NCB-115, S.B. 1945. Naval Construction Battalion 115 arrived in Olongapo, debarking in Subic Bay. Working without let-up, we got our equipment ashore and off up the rood through the hills to Olongapo Naval Bose, hearing on all sides the shout “Victory, Joe!”

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Zg490, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg490, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg490, NCB-115, S.B. 1945. Naval Construction Battalion 115 arrived in Olongapo, debarking in Subic Bay, with DE’s probing the shoreline we moved on in and swept up on the beach in the very dooryards of the town.

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Zg489, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg489, NCB-115, S.B. 1945

Zg489, NCB-115, S.B. 1945. Naval Construction Battalion 115 arrived in Olongapo, Subic Bay on the 8th of February 1945.

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Zg480

Zg480

Zg480. Naval Construction Battalion 115 lands at Subic Bay, the 8th of Feb. 1945.

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