Zf140

Zf140.- High resolution image of the Fleet Waiting Room in the Olongapo Naval Station in the Philippines; view 1. This is a very unique image of the Olongapo U.S. Naval Port; it is pre-war but was published in a post war collection of the “Pictorial History of Second World War”.
The bottom part of the picture shows Lt. Cmdr. Jack Morrill and part of the crew of USS Quail, escaping from the Manila Bay Harbor Defense Command by boat to Australia when General Wainwright was forced to surrender in 1942. Picture is provided by the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team. They bought it in the internet. They were told that the picture was somewhere in the 20 (or 10) volume collection of the “Pictorial History of Second World War”.

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