Subic Bay, SBFZ, ex Naval Base

[cbuehler]

Thanks Karl, absolutely incredible, the vast changes that have taken place since 1945 that continue to this day. The whole area is actually collection of places spread out all around the bay. I did not realize fully realize that the Olongapo of today is not even located where it once was.
I assume the old Spanish Gate must be the only remaining structure to mark the original location of where all of this started.

CB

[Karl Welteke]

SUBIC BAY 1945 IMAGES FROM WILLIAM (BILL) L. KERLIN AND BBB

William L Kerlin was a Patriot! He was in Subic Bay in 1945 and these pictures came from him via the Battling Bastards of Bataan (BBB)! The BBB web master sent them to me.
The webmaster of the Battling Bastards of Bataan (BBB) said this:
Karl,

In case you have not seen these... These are some old pictures I found in my PC of Subic circa 1945. The sailor was an old friend, Bill Kerlin. I am sure he would not mind me sharing these photos with you.

Fred

13 images have been uploaded into this thread.

Looking at these pictures, it seems nothing was left from the former Navy Facility after the Japanese abandoned Olongapo and made a stand at the Zig Zag Battle only 4 or 5 km east from here. Everything had to be build new from scratch and in the beginning it was all temporary war time construction. I was also surprised that at least one Olongapo street stayed intact, coconut trees and all, after 4 years of war. And it was muddy, no wonder they established a supply base where Barrio Barretto is now, a Seabee camp in Matain River Valley and a Submarine Base across the bay.




X836 (P4) the Subic Bay Naval Station and Olongapo Chapel in 1945, it lost its roof and the church goers are sitting on the east side of the church to take advantage of the shade.



X837 (P5) the Subic Bay Naval Station and Olongapo Chapel in 1945, it lost its roof during the war. The picture was dated 1st of May 1945.



X838 (P6) the Subic Bay Naval Station and Olongapo Chapel in 1945, this time both sides are used and the shade is still from east. The picture was dated 1st of May 1945.



X839 (P7) this must be the area of Rivera Wharf in 1945, many small Navy ships are nested and most are amphibious vessels or crafts.



X840 (P8) a cargo vessel is moored at the Rivera Wharf area in 1945, at left we see a shore line and that could be the area of Boton area.



X841 (P9) the picture says –Subic Barrio- but I am sure it is an Olongapo street under the administration of this new Naval Command established after liberation in 1945. I am surprised that coconut trees are doing well.



X842 (P10) a Navy chow line in 1945 in Subic Bay, how long will be the wait? Two landmarks are in view, the Chapel and the low end of Kalaklan Ridge which is now dominated by a large cemetery.



X843 (P11) the original description said Subic Bay Hospital July 1945.



X844 (P12) this could be the present Waterfront Road, at right I see a ship’s hull with a stack and before that a pier going out to the right. That could make it the Rivera Wharf area.



X845 (P13) this could be the area that became later the Ship Repair Activity (SRF) area. I see open water at left with a shoreline that could be the former Coaling Station area and today the fuel pier area.



X846 (P14) another row of Quonsets, could this be Officers Country?



X847 (P15) Kerlin, William Leon Bill, perhaps freshly out of recruit training.



X848 (P16) Bill Kerlin relaxing in Subic Bay 1945.



X849 (P17) Google Earth map, marked –up, with the areas in the pictures P4 to P17 in the album and numbers X837 to X949 in this thread.


INFORMATION ABOUT WILLIAM (BILL) l.KERLIN:

Bill lived from 1926 to 2008, below are some paragraphs, that describe his patriotic life in his obituary; the URL is below!

Kerlin, William Leon Bill Bill was born on September 13, 1926, in Wellston, Georgia
Bill graduated from Autauga County High School (now known as Prattville High School) Prattville, Alabama in May of 1943 at age 16. Bill joined the Navy in March of 1944 and served mostly in the West Coast, Southwest Pacific, and the Philippines, as a radioman and was discharged in May of 1946.
He retired from his civilian career in 1992.
During Bills retirement, he toured the battlefields of Europe and went back to the Philippines on two different occasions where he participated in the dedication of a monument to General John Wainwright on Corregidor Island and did a dedication at the American Military Cemetery in Manila. He participated in the 50th Anniversary of the landings by General Douglas McArthur on Lingayen Gulf.
On one of the trips back to the Philippines, he and his group of the Battling Bastards of Bataan discovered that there was not any monument or acknowledgement of the 1600 American Prisoners of the War who died at the hands of the Japanese at their POW camp, Camp McDonald.
Returning back to the states, it was decided that this group would fund a memorial by listing all of those who died in the first 6 months of their captivity. After completion of this wall of honor, it was dedicated the next year.
Not only has Bill contributed to this monument, he never refused the request for funds to honor other memorials or museums including those in England, France, and of course, the United States.
He participated with the U.S. Navy Reunion Group, Subic Bay Navy 3002 Association, setting up as many reunions in the South as he could. His favorite was held in Pensacola, FL, where on one day on a visit to the U.S.S. Alabama in Mobile, he arranged for his group to lunch aboard this Capital ship.
He had made reservations to attend the D Day Museum in New Orleans, but Hurricane Katrina made this impossible.

This Patriot passed away on Sunday, November 30th, 2008


This is William L Kerlin’s Obituary URL:

www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/76063/Kerlin-William.php

The same 13 images, also in the same size (they came in a small size), are also in this album with the numbers P4 to P16:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/SBFZ%20Ex%20Naval%20Base%20Subic%20Bay/SBFZ%202004%20and%20earlier/Subic%20Bay%20Historic%201?sort=9&page=2
or
tinyurl.com/nrud8uu

[randysubic]

Jul 16, 2015 2:14:22 GMT 8 cbuehler said:

Thanks Karl, absolutely incredible, the vast changes that have taken place since 1945 that continue to this day. The whole area is actually collection of places spread out all around the bay. I did not realize fully realize that the Olongapo of today is not even located where it once was.

I assume the old Spanish Gate must be the only remaining structure to mark the original location of where all of this started.

CB

Actually there are three structures left from the Spanish period. Please look at the photos here:

www.flickr.com/photos/39180497@N05/sets/72157656732037255

The "Spanish Gate" was more accurately called the West Gate and of course still stands, although the wall that it was the gate for is long since gone. There was one other gate, the South Gate that is visible in the painting of the Spanish Naval Station. That was demolished in the very early days of the American period.

The other two buildings are located in what was the Ship Repair Facility and still stand. One of the two Spanish buildings to resist the ravages of time and war was built as a warehouse but also served the Spanish as a prison. Later the Americans used it as an Officer’s Club, Movie Theater, and as the U.S. Navy’s Ship Repair Facility employee snack bar.

[Karl Welteke]

SEVEN OLD PICTURES OF DEWEY YFD-1 AND NAVAL STATION OLONGAPO P.I.

Bert Caloud, a retired Marine and Assistant Manager of the Manila American Cemetery sent me 4 old images.
He said this: “Karl I don't have the originals only copies but could think of no better home for these 4 pictures than with you shipmate”!

I added another 3 images and tried to make a story out of them.

These 7 images were added in a larger size into this album, and are numbered P18 to P24; they are on the 2nd page of the album:

s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/SBFZ%20Ex%20Naval%20Base%20Subic%20Bay/SBFZ%202004%20and%20earlier/Subic%20Bay%20Historic%201?sort=9&page=1
or
tinyurl.com/qfkkdp7

Here are the same 7 images and same descriptions but they are much smaller:



X789 (P18) this is a 1910 image of the Naval Station Olongapo P.I. and the sea wall, quay wall, is being built. This picture was sent to me by Bert Caloud, assistant leader in the Manila American Cemetery.



X890 (P19) a 1910 image of the floating dry-dock Dewey YFD-1; this picture was sent to me by Bert Caloud, assistant leader in the Manila American Cemetery. The Dry-dock Dewey is well known and you find many stories in the www. She was scuttled in Mariveles Harbor by her crew in 1942, raised by the Japanese enemy and sunk by Allied Forces.



X891 (P20) a very similar picture as the last one, P19, this Dewey YFD-1 Dry-dock picture came from this Corregidor web page, it was posted by John Moffitt:
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/987/fort-wint-subic-bay?page=3



X892 (P21) a 1910 image of the floating dry-dock Dewey this picture was sent to me by Bert Caloud, assistant leader in the Manila American Cemetery. The dry-dock is partially flooded and we see the inboard side of the port wing-wall.



X893 (P22) floating dry-dock Machinist (AFDB-8) at Naval Station Subic Bay in the 1980s. I show this picture because it is similar moored like the floating dry-dock Dewey YFD-1 was moored before the war. This picture came from Wikipedia. It is also otherwise unique to me. I dove on her doing underwater repair work in 1989/90, and she was built in Germany. With that name you can look her up in the www,



X894 (P23) this is also a 1910 image of the floating dry-dock Dewey YFD-1. It is hard to make out; it seems a ship is moored to it. The far side with the stacks is the port side. This picture was sent to me by Bert Caloud.



X895 (P24) USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) in dry-dock Dewey YFD-1, c. 1906–1907. This is a Wikipedia image.

[Karl Welteke]

LOOKED AROUND THE EX SUBIC BAY BASE BY CAR AUG. 6TH 2015

The Subic Bay Naval Base has become the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) and is managed by the Government Agency Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).

It has been a very successful conversion from the military use to civilian. There have been many, many investments. Many new things get started all the time.

An ex Naval Person would have a hard time to get their bearings, so much has been changed.

These 66 images in this album were shot in the present Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) which was the Subic Bay Naval Base which included the Cubi Point Naval Air Station and the Naval Station Subic Bay. And the city and town of Olongapo used to be on the base but has been moved off many years ago and is still the life of this Subic Bay community. This is the URL:

s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/SBFZ%20Ex%20Naval%20Base%20Subic%20Bay/SBFZ%202014%20and%202015/Subic%20by%20car%202015-08-06?sort=9&page=1
or
tinyurl.com/o45x7gp

I wrote descriptions for every picture and some are very long that I had to put some of the writings in the next box under the title of the pictures.

Here are 20 sample images:



X926 this map covers the first half of this album and is marked up with all the objects shown.



X927 this is a United States Naval Ship, a tanker (USNS) taking on fuel at the fueling pier, this is the old Navy pier.



X928 entrance to Vasco and the floating plane building. This floating plane organization is run by a retired Navy Aviation man. Vasco and Magellan Restaurant, Bar and Inn are famous, very popular and are run by well known Australian and sit exactly on the old concrete pilings of the old Navy Coaling Station.



X929 a great view of the former Ship Repair Facility (SRF), I see a Philippine war ship, many tugs, a cable laying ship, a yacht and two dry docks at right.



X930 the famous Leyte Wharf (carrier pier) is now a Grain port, look at the Silos and that huge bulk building to store grains, a bulk ship is alongside. Behind it is the new Container port, also with a ship alongside. The container business has picked up in Subic to decongest Manila.



X931 on the bay side of the Cubi Point Air Field near the end the Hanjin Shipyard has this boat landing for their Korean personnel to transport to the Hanjin Shipyard. The Koreans live in to newly built high-rise buildings in the former Naval Magazine area. The view is of the Hanjin Shipyard which was Green Beach, the Marine Corps training area, and Redondo Mountain behind it.



X932 this is Dungaree Beach in view, it is going to become a big resort and work is in progress.



X933 Nabasan Ammunition Wharf in the former Naval Magazine which is now a resort and has training facilities for a International Maritime School.



X934 where have all the air planes gone? FedEx dominated the former Cubi Point Naval Air Station but they have moved to China. Now it is a ghostly empty air field. But the word is that is going to become a Philippine Air Base.



X935 this big new hotel is called Mansion Garden Hotel and is located between our former movie theatre/library and the Naval Station Fire Station, still in operation. That complex was for all the Special Service vehicle for us Sailors and Marines to rent. The Naval building there collapsed under the Mount Pinatubo ash.



X936 this map is to aid you to find your way around the 2nd half of this album which has images of developments on the former Subic Bay Naval Station which is now the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ).



X937 the Buena Casa Hotel, for your orientation, that low concrete building was our Naval Post Office and at left, out of view, was the mini golf course.



X938 at this place stood our Naval Supply Depot HQ Building but collapsed under the Mt. Pinatubo ash. It was rebuilt with Japanese money and is now the new Port Administration building. At right the old NSD marker is now serving a new master.



X939 this is the Alava Extension Wharf entrance, a brand new building is going up. At the end of the building was our Port Control Office. In this picture we see the large Philippine Flag flying in front of the SBFZ HQ which was also our HQ.



X940 the Alava Extension Wharf end and we see the USNS Mercy and the submarine USS Chicago are in port.



X941 the only 4 things left from our time is the Main Gate and bridge which is not used for vehicles anymore, our gym building with a green wall now and at left there was Wimpy, a fast food place. That parking place was a parking place in my earl time but then became the HQ of the Philippine Marine Subic Command; their HQ building is gone now. Yesterday was Sunday and I could not find a parking place here or the other one at the other end of the Mall. In the popular S & R New York style Pizza place was standing room only to give you an idea how things look here sometime.



X942 most of the buildings in our taxi and bus terminal are gone. Straight ahead are three buildings that have risen after we left, the closest one (across Rizal Highway) is a Korean investment with a large swimming pool. Two Buildings behind the swimming pool complex are also sport related. Left you can see some of our bleachers and a track has been put into Remi Field, it is used frequently by walkers.



X943 this is the rear of the Bay Point Hospital. It is only about 100 meter from the Kalaklan Gate along Dewey Ave. It seems to a busy place many cars are all around the other side and end. They work with TRICARE and we Vets pay 25 % and the Hospital takes care of the rest with TRICARE when hospitalized.



X944 another huge building is going up next to the Kalaklan Gate; I do not know yet what it is going to be. For your orientation you should make out the Olongapo Cemetery on Kalaklan Ridge.



X945 this picture is not from me, it is from the AFP. I got it via the Manila Star news paper and it must have got shot from the stern of the USNS Mercy.

[Karl Welteke]

NAVAL STATION OLONGAPO COALING WHARF AREA

Yes that was the name before the war, and way before that the ships and a lot of other things run on coal. Maybe because of the need to coal the ships the United States insisted in keeping the Philippine Islands.

There are over 40 images in the in the other Subic Bay Historic 1 album so I started another one called Subic Bay Historic 2. Some of these 7 new images came from my shipmate Bert Caloud. This is the URL of the new album.

app.photobucket.com/u/PI-Sailor/a/02a144ec-3916-493b-8666-fe85497a9190

The same 7 images are also presented here but they are much smaller; I uploaded the pictures into the album with a fairly high bit count:



X965 (Z1) these 3 pictures (z1 to z3) came from a Sailor on the USS Idaho and it said they are from Olongapo. This place only can be the Coaling Wharf. The very heavy concrete pilings are still in place and the Vasco Restaurant, Bar & Museum sit on them.

These Three pictures (Z1 to Z3) were sent to me by Bert Caloud, who said this: Hi Karl. Hey these are pretty cool … taken by a guy on the USS Idaho (BB-42) but not too much about the Idaho it’s the early photos of Olongapo Navy Yard. I don’t have an exact date best guess is between 1920 and 1925. Best Regards. Bert



X966 (Z2) these 3 pictures came from a Sailor on the USS Idaho and it said they are from Olongapo. This place only can be the Coaling Wharf. The very heavy concrete pilings are still in place and the Vasco Restaurant, Bar & Museum sit on them.



X967 (Z3) these 3 pictures came from a Sailor on the USS Idaho and it said they are from Olongapo. This place only can be the Coaling Wharf. The very heavy concrete pilings are still in place and the Vasco Restaurant, Bar & Museum sit on them.



X968 (Z4) I forgot where I got this picture from but it shows the Olongapo Naval Station Coaling Wharf. But I have no idea when it was shot. Those entire heavy concrete walls are still there and have been incorporated into new buildings.



X969 (Z5) this is a 1940 picture from the Naval Historic Heritage Command, it is cropped by me to just show the area of the Coaling Wharf. Maybe it was used now as an oil fuelling wharf. Notice the Concrete bins are still there.



X970 (Z6) this is actually an updated map, where it says “Mine” that was a hill that got trucked away as fill for the new Container Port. And that could have been the hill that shows in image Z2.



X971 (Z6a) this Google Earth image is really up to date and it shows the left over edges of the hill trucked away as fill and the 7 new fuel tanks that took the hills place and it shows the new fuel pier.



X972 (Z7) USS Proteus alongside the Coal Dock in Olongapo circa 1915; this is a picture from the Naval Historic Heritage Command

[Karl Welteke]

BARRIO BARRETTO HAS A NAVY HISTORY THAT GOES WAY BACK,
it was called Maquinaya, -River, Rifle Range, -Swimming Beach and Supply Depot.

Barrio Barretto is now the premier tourist and recreation spot in Olongapo City for the budget traveler and expat. The Beach, hotels, restaurants and girly bars are the attraction. Many people have settled here, the locals, older and mature Service People who did not like the Olongapo Bar hassle and now people from all over the world are visiting and settling here.

Recently my shipmate Bert Caloud sent me 12 images from the Maquinaya area; most are pre war. I always heard of a Supply Base after WWII. Bert’s pictures and a Blogger show evidence that the Navy and Marines started using the Maquinaya area right after the United States created the Naval Reservation.

The Blogger’s info will presented in an other presentation (a couple days later). We also have a resident Navy Historian here but he only has a small prewar paragraph in his book, which is also presented a couple days later. The 12 new images of the Maquinaya area have added to this album and are called the “Y” series of images n(Y1 to Y12).

s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/SBFZ%20Ex%20Naval%20Base%20Subic%20Bay/SBFZ%202004%20and%20earlier/Subic%20Bay%20Historic%202?sort=9&page=1
or
tinyurl.com/q3u9r5d

These same 12 images are also uploaded into this forum thread. As usual the pictures in the album are larger but not very much because they were received in a small size:



X972 (Y1) this is a 1930 image of the Navy Rifle Range (a better description would be to call it the Marine Corps Rifle Range) located in the area called Maquinaya. This area became Barrio Barretto. The river is still called Maquinaya River. I really consider this a very, very rare image!



X973 (Y2) the last image and this image of the Maquinaya area which is now Barrio Barretto are really very rare images. It is the first time I seen them and they were handed to me by Bert Caloud. This is also from the 1930s.



X974 (Y3) what a change, this is Barrio Barretto now; I tried to angle this Google Earth image like the Y2 image and marked it with some relevant points in this “Y” series of images.



X975 (Y4) the picture says “Olongapo Rifle Range” and it is from the 1920s. We can safely assume this in the Maquinaya area because history says the Navy Rifle Range was here.



X976 (Y5) NSD means Naval Supply Depot and this is dated 1950; there is no doubt in my mind that the area pictured is where Barrio Barretto is now and which used to be the Maquinaya area. Kalaklan Point just got onto the picture also at right. The picture says it is a 1950 image.



Y977 (Y6) here the same area is called the Supply Annex; in this picture you can make out a large pier and a small vessel is moored to it. If you compare this ridge line with the one in the last image you must be convinced, like I am, that is the same view but is closer and clearer. The picture says it is a 1950 image.



X978 (Y7) the next 6 images are from the USS John D. Ford DD-228 and the description says the crew is on the Subic Bay Rifle Range in 1937. It is the first time I seen them and they were handed to me by Bert Caloud.



X979 (Y8) the 2nd of sixth images are from the USS John D. Ford DD-228 and the description says the crew is on the Subic Bay Rifle Range in 1937. It is the first time I seen them and they were handed to me by Bert Caloud.



X980 (Y9) the 3rd of sixth images are from the USS John D. Ford DD-228 and the description says the crew is on the Subic Bay Rifle Range in 1937. If it is in the Maquinaya area, I do not see any hills; or is the problem the quality of early photography.



X981 (Y10) the 4th of sixth images are from the USS John D. Ford DD-228 and the description says the crew is on the Subic Bay Rifle Range in 1937. It is the first time I seen them and they were handed to me by Bert Caloud.



X982 (Y11) the 5th of sixth images are from the USS John D. Ford DD-228 and the description says the crew is on the Subic Bay Rifle Range in 1937. It is the first time I seen them and they were handed to me by Bert Caloud.



X983 (Y12) the 6th of sixth images are from the USS John D. Ford DD-228 and the description says the crew is on the Subic Bay Rifle Range in 1937. Was the crew some landing exercise? It looks to me that the Navy took the Landing Detail more serious than during my time 1960-1990.

[Karl Welteke]

SUBIC BAY
FROM MAGELLAN TO PINATUBO



X984 The history of the U.S. Naval Station Subic Bay
Gerald R. Anderson
This book is available in Amazon etc.

The author is a contributor in this forum as “randysubic”. He was the main player in establishing the Hellships Memorial in Subic Bay. He lives in Barrio Barretto like I and we are friends.

In his large history he has covered the Maquinaya area sparingly but here are two small paragraphs repeated:

Page 82 bottom paragraph (before the war):

Two miles further up the coast from the naval station was Maquinaya, now the site of the town of Barrio Barretto. The Marines maintained a training area here, holding combat exercises, bush warfare practice, as well as qualification in rifle, pistol and machine gun.

Page 829 bottom paragraph (after the war):

A Naval Supply Depot was established in Maquinaya, about 3 miles from the main base along with an Advance Base Construction Depot and the 115th Seabees. The combined activities the number of civilian (civilian must be a mistake and he must mean to say Naval) personnel to a peak of 9000 in 1946.

[Karl Welteke]

MORE HISTORY ABOUT MAQUINAYA AKA BARRIO BARRETTO


A Blog, called Vanishing Points, said the below about the area that was Maquinaya that later became Barrio Barretto and this is the URL:


bloggapo.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html


The portions of what would be Barangay Barretto that were first developed were Maquinaya beach and an opposite vale which was used as a rifle range by the U. S. Marines as early as 1906. That range is now a police camp. East of the camp is Maquinaya river. In 1906 and 1909, the Maquinaya River was the locale of studies on malaria cases contracted by U. S. Marines.

The U. S. Navy maintained the facilities at Maquinaya and used the area as a supply depot until the Naval station expansion and subsequently relinquished control of the same. After Olongapo became a municipality in 1959, sitio (village) Maquinaya was created comprising of the former U. S. Navy range and areas northward and eastward which were later opened for residential and commercial purposes. Around 1961, Sitio Maquinaya became a barrio by virtue of a provincial resolution.


The barrio was later renamed in honor of Gov. Manuel Barretto, former governor of Zambales (from1956 to 1967).


This blog has many pictures about Olongapo and the Base.

[Karl Welteke]

THE EX NAVY PIER IN BARRIO BARRETTO, SUBIC BAY, TODAY

These are 5 present pictures of the ex Navy pier shot on the 3RD Sep. 2015. They have been uploaded into this album with the numbers W1 to W5:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/SBFZ%20Ex%20Naval%20Base%20Subic%20Bay/SBFZ%202004%20and%20earlier/Subic%20Bay%20Historic%202?sort=9&page=1

In the Y series of pictures, Y5 and Y6 picture, show the Navy Supply place which is called Naval Supply Depot or Naval Supply Depot Annex, it was built in 1945 and was used a number of years. This is located in the area that is called Barrio Barretto now (where I live now). In the image Y3 I indicated the approximate location of the pier on a Google Earth map. The 5 images of the “W” series show what is left of the pier as late as Sep. 2015.

These same 5 images are also presented here but are much smaller. One confusing factor is that in the album they are numbered W1 to W5 while in the forum here they are numbered W65 to W69:



W65 (W1) the Navy pier in 1945 was located on the beach area in front of the hotels, By The Sea and Grand Seas, who are located there now. The former Navy pier must have connected to these concrete pilings.



W66 (W2) is a close-up of the last picture W1, these pilings and the concrete deck are located bay side of the Grand Seas Hotel.



W67 (W3) a close up image from under the pier and deck area of the former Navy pier in what is Barrio Barretto (Olongapo, Subic Bay) now and then was called Maquinaya.



W68 (W4) what is left over from the steel wall built with the interlocking steel strips, about a foot wide and ½ inch thick or more. Under water you can see it is at least 300 feet long and at the ends it turns inland with a right angle.

This was the Navy Supply Depot Pier in what is now Barrio Barretto in Olongapo City, Subic Bay. The land in view is the point of land where behind it, Baloy Beach starts and on old Spanish maps that point is called Mangalinocwin Pt. Those hotels are along the access road to Baloy Beach which were all built after the US Navy pulled out in 1992. Notice the two Filipinos fishing by skin diving.



W69 (W5) what is left over from the steel wall built with the interlocking steel strips, about a foot wide and ½ inch thick or more. This was the Navy Pier, built in 1945, for the Supply Depot in the area which is now called Barrio Barretto.

In the back of this image you see Grande Island in Subic Bay and a nest of ships that transloads iron ore from a big ship with Brazilian iron ore to a smaller ship going to Red China. In the Y series of pictures, Y5 and Y6 picture, show the Navy Supply place which is called Naval Supply Depot or Naval Supply Depot Annex, it was built in 1945 and was used a number of years. This is located in the area that is called Barrio Barretto now (where I live now). In the image Y3 I indicated the approximate location of the pier on a Google Earth map. The 5 images of the “W” series (in the album) show what is left of the pier as of Sep. 2015.