Post by Karl Welteke on Oct 31, 2015 13:42:11 GMT 8
FORT DRUM, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY VIEWS
Here are three images of Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island in Manila Bay. The 3rd one was cropped to three additional separate images to make them appear zoomed in. These pictures were provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
I uploaded them to Flickr at a good size, into the album “Aerial Views from NARA via CDSG” and they are numbered E1 to E6:
www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72157658661455655
The same six pictures are presented here but they are smaller than in the album:
W274 (E1) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1927, the picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W275 (E2) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces, the picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W276 (E3) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Japanese are still down deep in that fort, nobody in sight.
W277 (E4) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the Bow zoomed in. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W278 (E5) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the Midships zoomed in. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W279 (E6) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the Stern zoomed in. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Fort Drum, El Fraile Island links
Concrete Battleship, a new group of threads in our forum, dealing with Fort Drum aka El Fraile Island.
corregidor.proboards.com/board/10/concrete-battleship
On the 14th of August 2009 a friend and I visited ex Fort Drum, on Fraile Island, the Concrete Battle Ship in Manila Bay. Because the gun barrels on the after 14 Inch turret dropped down, in, out of sight there might be some renewed interest in the ex fort.
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/806/fort-drum-2009-august-14th
Karl’s group/set of Fort Drum albums, many sub albums:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Manila%20Bay%20Forts-Other/Fort%20Drum-Fraile%20Island?sort=9&page=1
If you would like the URL to the most outstanding web page on Fort Drum, this is it:
www.corregidor.org/drum/contents.htm
If you are interested in the history of the American and Philippine defense of Manila Bay and its glorious recapture in 1945, you want to look at this most outstanding webpage:
www.corregidor.org/
FRAILE ISLAND 1909, COURTESY OF THE MACARTHUR MEMORIAL. Sometime the MacArthur Memorial, hosted by the City of Norfolk in Virginia send me a snippet as a personal favor because of my great interest in our Philippine-US historical relationship. Here is an early image of Fraile Island in Manila Bay and I made two pictures out of it and posted them here in this album with the numbers M1 and M2:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20by%20subject/Historical%20Corregidor/MacArthur%20Memorial%20images?sort=9&page=1
Fort Drum, the unsinkable concrete ‘battleship’ of Manila Bay, from domack
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1790/fort-unsinkable-concrete-battleship-manila
FORT DRUM, SCRAPPERS AT WORK:
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/807/fort-drum-scrappers-work
El Fraile Island (Fort Drum) Trip report, 2 pages, from fots2
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/542/el-fraile-island-fort-drum
There is more, just search for Fort Drum, El Fraile Island
Here are three images of Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island in Manila Bay. The 3rd one was cropped to three additional separate images to make them appear zoomed in. These pictures were provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
I uploaded them to Flickr at a good size, into the album “Aerial Views from NARA via CDSG” and they are numbered E1 to E6:
www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72157658661455655
The same six pictures are presented here but they are smaller than in the album:
W274 (E1) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1927, the picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W275 (E2) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces, the picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W276 (E3) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) and who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Japanese are still down deep in that fort, nobody in sight.
W277 (E4) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the Bow zoomed in. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W278 (E5) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the Midships zoomed in. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
W279 (E6) Fort Drum, Fraile Island 1945 under attack by the Allied Forces and before the capture, the Stern zoomed in. This picture was provided by Karl Schmidt of the Coastal Defense Study Group (cdsg.org) who got it from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Fort Drum, El Fraile Island links
Concrete Battleship, a new group of threads in our forum, dealing with Fort Drum aka El Fraile Island.
corregidor.proboards.com/board/10/concrete-battleship
On the 14th of August 2009 a friend and I visited ex Fort Drum, on Fraile Island, the Concrete Battle Ship in Manila Bay. Because the gun barrels on the after 14 Inch turret dropped down, in, out of sight there might be some renewed interest in the ex fort.
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/806/fort-drum-2009-august-14th
Karl’s group/set of Fort Drum albums, many sub albums:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Manila%20Bay%20Forts-Other/Fort%20Drum-Fraile%20Island?sort=9&page=1
If you would like the URL to the most outstanding web page on Fort Drum, this is it:
www.corregidor.org/drum/contents.htm
If you are interested in the history of the American and Philippine defense of Manila Bay and its glorious recapture in 1945, you want to look at this most outstanding webpage:
www.corregidor.org/
FRAILE ISLAND 1909, COURTESY OF THE MACARTHUR MEMORIAL. Sometime the MacArthur Memorial, hosted by the City of Norfolk in Virginia send me a snippet as a personal favor because of my great interest in our Philippine-US historical relationship. Here is an early image of Fraile Island in Manila Bay and I made two pictures out of it and posted them here in this album with the numbers M1 and M2:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20by%20subject/Historical%20Corregidor/MacArthur%20Memorial%20images?sort=9&page=1
Fort Drum, the unsinkable concrete ‘battleship’ of Manila Bay, from domack
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1790/fort-unsinkable-concrete-battleship-manila
FORT DRUM, SCRAPPERS AT WORK:
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/807/fort-drum-scrappers-work
El Fraile Island (Fort Drum) Trip report, 2 pages, from fots2
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/542/el-fraile-island-fort-drum
There is more, just search for Fort Drum, El Fraile Island
