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  2. Subic Bay - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Port of Subic Bay - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Battle of Bataan (1945) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle for the Recapture of Bataan (Filipino: Labanan para sa Bataan) from 31 January to 21 February 1945, by US forces and Allied Filipino guerrillas from the Japanese, part of the campaign for the liberation of the Philippines, was waged to secure the western shore of Manila Bay to enable the use of its harbor and open new supply lines for American troops engaged in the crucial battle ...

  6. Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 - Wikipedia

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    The former village site is now under 45 feet (14 m) of earth. The next, and biggest, issue was cutting a mountain in half and moving the material to fill in Subic Bay to create a 10,000 feet (3,000 m) long runway. CBs 2, 3, 5, 9 & 11 all blasted coral to fill a section of the bay as well as adjoining swampland. They removed trees as large as ...

  9. Ōryoku Maru - Wikipedia

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    Oryoku burning after attack on 15 December 1944 about 11 AM. Photo by a Hellcat from USS Hornet shows POWs swimming in the water. Oryoku burning on 15 December 1944.. Oryoku Maru left Manila on December 13, 1944, with 1,620 prisoners of war (including 1,556 American, 50 British and Dutch, 7 Czech, 4 Norwegians and several other nationalities) packed in the holds, and 1,900 Japanese civilians ...