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Zg040. This is another unique picture of the former Naval Station Olongapo and the Olongapo Town, shot in 1909, and apparently the Tappan Park was not created yet. I never saw such a complete image of Olongapo before the war.

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Zg039. This is a Google Earth image of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ), the Naval Station part of the former Subic Bay Naval Base. I used it before in other venues but it is good enough to show where I believe the parading soldiers marched.

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Zg035. This is an image of Fort Wint Philippine Scouts of the US Army CAC parading thru Olongapo on Memorial Day, the 30th of May 1941. This picture was provided by John Duresky, researcher of an author team that finished their book, it is titled: Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by […]

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Is this really Gen. Yamashita’s pistol? This is a presentation from the Gen. MacArthur Memorial Dec. 2022 Newsletter. Zg033 Mr. Hans Hoeflein of Easton, PA, recently donated a Japanese Nambu pistol that belonged to MacArthur’s top World War II secret agent in the Philippines, Commander Charles “Chick” Parsons (pictured). Hoeflein grew up in wartime Manila, […]

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Zg032 Dale Lueck Visit to Subic On the 11th of Dec. 2022 I had a visitor from the Good Old USA with his family, a Navy Deep Sea Diver who started as a fireman and retired as a Commander. I showed him the huge Lahar Field about 25 Km north of here in San Marcelino. […]

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Zg024. Pictures #045 to 065 are from my side trip to Brgy. Tipo. First of all we get a great view of the massive development/investment of the Xantheng Corp. thru their Tipo Hightech ECO Park Company. They have spread out from the SBFZ Tipo Gate at left to the Familiar Hill at right. We also […]

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Zg023. Pictures #045 to 065 are from my side trip to Brgy. Tipo. First of all we get a great view of the massive development/investment of the Xantheng Corp. thru their Tipo Hightech ECO Park Company. They have spread out from the SBFZ Tipo Gate at left to the Familiar Hill at right. We also […]

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Zg022. Pictures #040 to 044 continuation of the walk along the SBFZ Perimeter Road and Fence from the Jadjad River bridges to the intersection with the road to the Aeta Pastolan Village, coming from the National Highway and which passes the entrance gate to Sta. Rita Mountain. That road is also being improved, I turned […]

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Zg021. Pictures #034 to 039 show the Subic-Tipo Expressway Bridges over the Jadjad River and that recently a project of Capacity Expansion was carried out. A massive steel tower was built under the new bridge and something had to be done; that tower was just now dismantled.

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Zg020. This is the dirt road to the Tipo Gate! Pictures #029 to 033 show pictures of the continuation of the walk along the SBFZ Perimeter Road and Fence from the rocky hill I climbed to the Subic-Tipo Expressway bridges over the Jadjad River. We see a warning sign of the Xantheng Subic Int’l Corp, […]