Zo808

Zo808. The Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team reports this: Also, report mentions a 3″ gun at Battery Jewel. Attached is a photo of a 3″ gun taken in 1941 which was labeled by Grace Britt, we assume some time after she was evacuated on 5/5/1941. Could be a gun that shot at that barge. We are guessing by coincidence that gun in the photo is aimed right about at Sueste Point. Again, you’re welcome to use that photo. Pretty good shooting with a 3″ gun to hit what I assume was a relatively small barge, that’s roughly 4.4 miles from Battery Jewel to the light house area.

Zo807

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!

Zo806

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.

Zo805

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.

Zo804

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.

Zo801

Zo801. A Japanese ship under attack in this very clear picture of NAVAL STATION Olongapo on the 19th Nov. 1944.
This picture is curtesy of Tim Hampton, CV-12 Hornet Air Group Eleven archivist.
This picture is also uploaded in high resolution in my Flickr album, if you like to download it. This is the URL of the image, you got to follow the Flickr steps to download:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/50098462156/in/album-72157674621084888/

It was made available to me thru the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman magazine.

You can learn more about the research team project from this URL:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2275/army-chester-britt-ship-oryoku

This attacked ship is not the infamous Oryoku Maru, it looks more like freighter and it was attacked on the 19th Nov 1944 and not in Dec. 1944 when the Oryoku Maru was attacked and sunk in Olongapo. The Corregidor forum has a very interesting page about the Oryoku Maru, in pictures about the last few days of the ship before it got sunk:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1601/oryoku-maru

Zo801. A Japanese ship under attack in this very clear picture of NAVAL STATION Olongapo on the 19th Nov. 1944.
This picture is curtesy of Tim Hampton, CV-12 Hornet Air Group Eleven archivist.
This picture is also uploaded in high resolution in my Flickr album, if you like to download it. This is the URL of the image, you got to follow the Flickr steps to download:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/50098462156/in/album-72157674621084888/

It was made available to me thru the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman magazine.

You can learn more about the research team project from this URL:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2275/army-chester-britt-ship-oryoku

This attacked ship is not the infamous Oryoku Maru, it looks more like freighter and it was attacked on the 19th Nov 1944 and not in Dec. 1944 when the Oryoku Maru was attacked and sunk in Olongapo. The Corregidor forum has a very interesting page about the Oryoku Maru, in pictures about the last few days of the ship before it got sunk:
https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1601/oryoku-maru

Zo689

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.

Zo405

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.

Zo406

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/

Zo138

Zo138 Three POWs escaped from the sinking Oryoku Maru as reported by Capt. Ramon Magsaysay (later the President of the Philippines). This document was found and was provided by Bub Hudson. Amazing, I never knew that. Thank you Olongapo and area Guerillas.