Zg639. We are on our walk down-river in the Sinalang Cove Valley, from just under the east end of the Kaybiang Tunnel, to find the Fort Frank Waterdam. A few stretches of the river valley was this easy.
On February 18 the Japanese concentrated most of their fire power on Fort Frank. At 9:30 p.m. they scored a hit on Battery Frank North Number 4 gun wounding seven of its crew. Shell fire was kept up against the fort into the night. As the shells continued to hit in and around Carabao Island the harbor boat Neptune tried to approach Fort Frank to deliver supplies. Forced to pull away from the pier once due to the shelling she returned again at 3:30 a.m. on February 19. As Neptune started to tie up to the pier she was hit on the bow by a Japanese shell that set afire 15 drums of gasoline intended for the fort’s generators, and 500 powder charges for the 155mm guns. The gasoline blaze quickly had Neptune afire from bow to stern and the crew abandoned over the side. All supplies aboard the ship were lost. In addition, floating burning gasoline came ashore and set the
island’s vegetation on fire in a number spots. It was only with great difficulty that the blazes were extinguished.