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5 unusual facts about Subic Bay


Alene Duerk

From June 1958 to May 1961 she served as Nurse Programs Officer at the Naval Recruiting Station, Chicago, Illinois, after which she had duty as Charge Nurse at the U. S. Naval Station Hospital, Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines.

Charles A. Lockwood

He oversaw the moving forward of the Pacific Fleet submarine bases from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Australia to places like Saipan - where a submarine tender was stationed for a period of time - Guam, the Admiralty Islands, and Subic Bay, the Philippines.

Fausto Vega Santander

On 1 June 1945, at the age of 21, the young airman was killed by the enemy Anti-aircraft warfare during a risky dive bombing mission against a Japanese site located in Subic Bay.

Green-faced Parrotfinch

This species is currently been conserved in two protected areas, the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park and Bataan Natural Park/ Subic Bay.

Subic

U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, which was the United States' largest overseas naval base



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Advanced Base Force

In an exercise in 1907 at Subic Bay, a battalion commanded by Major Eli K. Cole emplaced forty-four heavy guns in a ten-week period due to the Eight-eight fleet war scare with Japan in 1907, which convinced the Navy Department that it should organize the matériel for an advanced base force to be available in the Philippines and one that is well-prepared and trained in Philadelphia, PA.