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Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about 100 kilometers (62 mi) northwest of Manila Bay.An extension of the South China Sea, its shores were formerly the site of a major United States Navy facility, U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, now an industrial and commercial area known as the Subic Bay Freeport Zone under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.
Bridge leading to NS Subic Bay, 1981. Unlike the rest of the Philippines which gained independence from the United States after World War II in 1946, Olongapo was governed as a part of the United States naval reservation. The Subic Bay Naval Base commanding officer was chairman of the Olongapo town council, school board, and hospital board.
Subic Bay Naval Station was established with four companies of soldiers and a company of Kempeitai. By January 1945, the Japanese had all but abandoned Subic Bay. The U.S. Fifth Air Force had dropped 175 tons of bombs on Grande Island evoking only light fire from the skeleton Japanese force manning the anti-aircraft guns.
Subic Bay Naval Station was established with four companies of soldiers and a company of Kempeitai. Within one week of the Japanese's occupation of Subic Bay and Grande Island, American PT boats at Cavite were ordered to attack a Japanese ship, which was anchored at Subic Bay, that was shelling American positions.
While the Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone (as well as the agency responsible for the freeport zone's operations and management Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA)) shares a name with a nearby town, it covers portions of Olongapo and the town of Subic in Zambales, and Hermosa and Morong in Bataan. It covers a total area of 67,452 ...
Subic Bay International Airport hosted a number of wide-bodied aircraft during the seventh APEC Summit in 1996. They included a chartered Royal Brunei Airlines Airbus A340-200 , Japanese Air Force One , and the Air Force One , among others.
In an exercise in 1907 at Subic Bay, a US Marine battalion of the Advanced Base Force commanded by Major Eli K. Cole emplaced forty-four heavy guns for coast defense in a ten-week period, due to the Eight-eight fleet war scare with Japan. [2] [3] [4] These were operated by the Marines until circa 1910, when Fort Wint on Grande Island was completed.
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA; Filipino: Pangasiwaang Kalungsuran sa Look ng Subic [1]) is a governmental agency of the Philippines. [2] [3] The SBMA has played a significant part in the development of the Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone into a self-sustainable area that promotes the industrial, commercial, investment, and financial areas of trade in the zone as well as ...