Zf316. No. 13.1942 4 10 OLONGAPO wirephoto view 1
This is a pre WWII image of the Naval Station Olongapo in Subic Bay. The original, a marked-up copy, 3 zoomed/cropped pieces and the back of the picture source description are also posted here in high resolution, in this Flickr album, scroll down, click here:
This picture was bought in the www by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. They completed their book, called: Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt
Lt Britt was an Army Officer assigned to Fort Wint on Grande Island in Subic Bay. When the Philippine and American Forces abandoned the Subic Bay area Lt. Britt took his Philippine Scouts and Philippine Army Soldiers to Bataan with their 155mm GPF artillery guns and fought there to the end.
This Army Officer survived as a POW of the Japanese, rides on 3 Hell Ships and continued his active duty in the Army. That is what the above book is about.
This picture, numbered No.13 in that Flickr album, apparently was obtained from the Acme News Photos news agency. It has the date April 10, 1042 on the back of it, see picture No 14. That date cannot be the date the picture was shot because the Dewey dry dock had been towed to Mariveles and was scuttled and so was USS Rochester; it was scuttled in Subic Bay before that date.
The reason the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team and I are so interested to get a clearer copy of this picture is because of picture No 01 in that Flickr album. That is probably a very unique and probably the only picture of the Fleet Waiting Shack in the Naval Station Olongapo. And we wanted to find out where it was. We believe that is the location as indicated in picture No. 15 in that album.