This image shows the former US Marines Green Beach training area, which became the Hanjin Shipyard; now, it is the Agila Subic Shipyard and the Agila Philippine Navy Operating Base with many of their larger vessels.
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This presentation has 44 images out of the original 72 images which are in this Flickr album and in high resolution, click here:
The picture numbers are in sequence of the original 72 images!
These are random pictures, I have shot, when I do my frequent walking; many images are of the former Naval Base Subic Main Gate Bridge being replaced, a new resort being built at the end of Baloy Beach and the mouth of the Matain River. Many pictures are of Barrio Barretto, the former Naval Rifle Range ”Maquinaya” which in 1945 became a Naval Supply Depot, part of the former pier is still visible. The pictures have a date imprint! All descriptions are kept here and some may not show a picture, because this presentation only has 44 pictures!
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#01 to #04 images are of the Barrio Barretto Beach, the location of the 1945 Naval Supply Depot and Naval Maquinaya Rifle Range before that. The local rainy season is the 2nd half of the year and you see a high tide and flotsam; it gets cleaned up in no time. #1 picture is the Arizona Hotel floating bar, #2 images is our new high rise resort in Barretto, #3 image is in front of the Mango’s Resort and #4 image is at the mouth of the Matain River; the last two pics show a high tide, seldom though like that.
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#05 picture shows the widened National Road by the Olongapo Police HQ in Barrio Barretto, an area called “164”. It shows a section of road had to be replaced, left is the public beach called “Driftwood Beach”.
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#06 picture shows the new resort being build at the end of Baloy Beach and at the mouth of the Matain River. Scuttlebutt has it, that a widow of a Las Vegas business man is building it. It took a court order, police and a demolition crew to clear this area for this project.
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#07 image shows my neighborhood, the tall house is new and another one is going up. I took the picture from my house, also a new house. All this construction has a US connection.
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#08 & #09 images show a new bridge being built, about 1 km upriver of the Matain River, until that moment a WWII Bailey Bridge was doing the bridging job.
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#10 & #11 images are the Main Gate Bridge to be replaced by the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) the former Naval Base Subic Bay. It is called now Magsaysay Bridge. There was obviously a problem, contract or otherwise, it is 5 full years in the works now. IT IS IN OPERATION NOW, THIS YEAR 2025.
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#12 image was interesting to me, the first one I had came across, for people to take care of the watershed area. This sign was at the end of the Barrio Barretto Rizal Extension Road where one enters the wooded area.
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#13 pic is a house on the Barrio Barretto Rizal Extension Road. I took the picture because the paint job attracted me and I showed to my wife as an idea to paint her new Hacienda that way. She did so somewhat.
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#14 image is the new resort being build at the end of Baloy Beach and at the mouth of the Matain River. Scuttlebutt has it, that a widow of a Las Vegas business man is building it. It took a court order, police and a demolition crew to clear this area for this project.
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#15 image is yours truly, in the garage, 82 years young then. You should be able to tell that I’m a retired US Navy man and if you look closer then you should see the Submarine Rescue Chamber in the picture, operated that thing a couple times for training in Hawaii onto a submarine.
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#16 to #22 plus images #24 & #25 are shot from the SM (Shoe Mart) 7 storey high Mall on the Olongapo City side of the former Naval Base Subic Bay, across the drainage canal, the main gate bridge (being rebuild) and show the former Naval Base which is now the Subic Bay Freeport Zone. Just about all the buildings you see have been built after 1992, the year we left and you will have a hard time to recognize anything. In picture #17 you should be able to see the large Philippine Flag flying at the same place where the US and the Philippine Flags were flying jointly until Nov. 1992.
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#23 image is a temporary bridge over the Matain River during the time a new one was built, see my pictures #08 & #09.
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#26 to #30 images are of the Barrio Barretto Beach, the location of the 1945 Naval Supply Depot and Naval Maquinaya Rifle Range before that. The local rainy season is the 2nd half of the year and you see a high tide and flotsam on the beach; it gets cleaned up in no time. #30 image shows Grande Island, the former Army Fort Wint.
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#31 to #37 images are of the new resort being built at the end of the Baloy Beach and next to the mouth of the Matain River. Image #34 shows the former US Marines Green Beach training area, which became the Hanjin Shipyard, now, the Agila Subic Shipyard and the Agila Philippine Navy Operating Base with many of their larger vessels.
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#38 to #40 images show the former Naval Base Main Gate Bridge being rebuilt. #40 view is from Magsaysay Drive back onto the new bridge. How many US Sailors have crossed the bridge? In that picture, left, we see the 7 storey high SM Mall.
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#41 to #45 images are shot from Kalaklan Ridge, which separates Barrio Barretto from Olongapo City.
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#46 images shows the new resort at the end of Baloy Beach again.
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#47 & #48 show the new completed bridge over the Matain River, about 1Km up-river.
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#49 & #50 images are of the former Subic Bay Main Gate Bridge again, making small progress.
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#51 & #52 images are of a high school class of Barangay (Barrio) Naugsol, about 5 km upriver of Matain River Valley. I ask them to sing a song and they did, they were with their teacher. The white building in the middle of the picture is the new high school of Barrio Naugsol, Subic Municipality.
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#53 image is a local man who was drying these plants. He said he uses them the make baskets. This is in Barrio Naugsol about 5 km upriver of the Matain River.
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#54 image is also in the Barrio Naugsol area, about 5 km upriver of the Matain River. I thought the picture is interesting to show that there is an effort to collect trash and separate it for recycling.
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#55 & #56 images show the Barretto Bypass Road, it comes from the Subic Town Bypass Road, goes thru Barrio Naugsol, and crosses the Matain River on a solid and new bridge and starts to go up to the Kalaklan Ridge. An engineer on the site told me the road will be coming down near the Father Cullen PREDA organization near the Olongapo City Cemetery.
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#57 to #62 images are shot at the mouth of Matain River (boundary between Olongapo City and the Subic Town Municipality) and the end of Baloy Beach. #57 image shows the new resort has 4 floors now, #59 & #62 images show the former US Marines Green Beach training area, which became the Hanjin Shipyard, now, the Agila Subic Shipyard and the Agila Philippine Navy Operating Base with many of their larger vessels. In picture #59, I know those colors: Schwarz-Rot-Gold.
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#63 to #68 images show the former Officer Country of former Subic Bay Naval Base. #63 & #64 images show structures that were added, after 1992, to the former Bachelor Officer Quarter and unfortunately they built right over the infamous tennis court where the surviving (about 1200) POWs from the sunk Oryoku Mary were kept in inhumane conditions. #65 image is the former Officer Club, not used now. #66 image is the sewer pumping station between the former Officer Club (right) and the Officer boat landing (left). #67 image is the former Officer Club parking lot. #68 image is the former main BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) building. I believe investors have added one floor to the building after 1992.
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#69 & #70 show a MSC (Military Sealift Command) ship. It is in the former Ship Repair Facility (SRF) Command area, alongside the Rivera Wharf. I cannot get closer and I’m not authorized to enter that area. I think I can see a hull number “10”. Alava Wharf may be considered unsafe now, I have not seen a ship tie-up to it in over several years!
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#71 & #72 images are of the Hell Ships Memorial in the former Subic Bay Naval Base, now the SBFZ and are located in front of Bldg. 229, the former and present Head Quarter of Naval and Philippine Management.
Gerald Anderson, is a retired US Navy officer who became interested in the hellships while stationed at the US Naval Station, Subic Bay, working in an office located less than 500 meters from the resting place of one the most notorious hellships, the Oryoku Maru. After retirement, Mr. Anderson returned to the Philippines and began a fund raising program to build a fitting memorial to the POWs who suffered so much as prisoners of the Japanese.
Ostensibly an American initiative, Gerald Anderson met with Leslie Ann Murray of the Filipino-American Memorial Endowment (FAME), a subcommittee of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, and formed a relationship with them. FAME is best known for placing and maintaining the kilometer markers along the Bataan Death March, and Corregidor and other sites important to the American POW story.
On 22 January 2006, after two years of hard work, the monument was dedicated by SBMA Chairman Feliciano Salonga with a key note speech by Duane Heisinger, whose father had been a POW on one of the Hellships.
Robert Chester, retired U.S. Navy Chief Boatswains Mate living in the Subic Bay area, began working on the Memorial project in 2005 and re-designed the original Hellships Memorial to its final construction form. Robert helped coordinate the construction of the memorial with the architect and construction firm, and then took on the layout and construction of the Hellships Memorial Display inside the nearby Subic Bay Historical Center. The Hellships Museum Display was completed and dedicated 22 January 2006 in conjunction with the Hellships Memorial Dedication. Robert continues to be involved, planning and executing construction of the upgrades of the museum.
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