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Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island ( Tagalog: Pulo ng El Fraile ), is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", [ 1] the reinforced concrete sea fort, shaped like a battleship, was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the ...
12-inch (305 mm) M1895 gun of Battery Hearn, Fort Mills circa 2010. The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 ...
Fort Frank ( Carabao Island, the Philippines) was one of the defense forts at the entrance to Manila Bay established by the United States. The entire island was designated as Fort Frank, in honor of Brigadier General Royal T. Frank, as part of the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays built by the Philippine Department of the US Army in the ...
1st Coast Artillery ( Philippine Army) [ 1] 2nd Coast Artillery (Philippine Army) The Harbor of Manila and Surrounding Areas. Fort Mills ( Corregidor, the Philippines) was the location of US Major General George F. Moore 's headquarters for the Philippine Department 's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the ...
Battle of Corregidor. The Battle of Corregidor ( Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い ), fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II . The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the ...
Fort Drum in Manila Bay, Philippines, was a result of the Taft board program. One of the most extreme fortresses of the early 20th century was Fort Drum in Manila Bay of the Philippines. Originally a barren rock island, it was leveled by U.S. Army engineers between 1910 and 1914 and then built up with thick layers of steel-reinforced concrete ...
Fort San Antonio Abad. Fort San Pedro. Fort San Pedro (Iloilo) Fort Culion. Fort Cuyo. Fort Santiago.
Naval Base Manila was a major United States Navy base south of the City of Manila, on Luzon. Some of the bases dates back to 1898, the end of the Spanish–American War. Starting in 1938 civilian contractors were used to build new facilities in Manila to prepare for World War II. With the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) the ...