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Philippine Island Scenes.
Photo's courtesy of Lyle Fisher. VW-1 1961 - 1963.. unless noted otherwise
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- Pictured 1st. from the left: Aerial view of NS Sangley Pt. and a portion of Cavite City.
Pictured 2nd. from the left: Another aerial view of NS Sanley Pt. courtesy of Al Garza ATR-2 VW-1 66-67
TE-4
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- Some of us on Crew 2 had discovered that there were a whole lot of tours available at the Manila Hotel
(near the American Embassy) in Manila. The pictures on this page are some that we took on these tours
Pictured 1st. from the left: Street scene #1 on main thorough fare of Manila in the Philippine Islands.
Pictured 2nd. from the left: The Philippine Presidential palace in Manila was a part of our downtown tour in
Manila. us.
Pictured 3rd. from the left: The Santo Tomas University in Manila was where the survivors of the Bataan Death
March were kept imprisoned by the Japanese.
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- Pictured 1st. from the left: Taal Lake is a freshwater lake in the province of Batangas, on the island of
Luzon, Philippines. The lake is situated within a caldera formed by very large eruptions between 500,000 and
100,000 years ago. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Pictured 2nd. from the left: The Taal Lake/Volcano was a tour from the Manila Hotel and was at least an hour or
more drive south of Manila.
From L to R are ADR-3 Mark Phillips, AMS-2 John Rice, ATN-3 Ken Fette, and AT-2 Lyle Fisher taken
mid-1962
Pictured 3rd and 4th. from the left: The entrance gate to the American Cemetery of Manila
The Cemetery is 220 acres of immaculately manicured grounds, there are 17,207 white marble crosses or stars of
David for those buried there. I was so impressed in 1963 that I went back 2 more times during tours while
assigned to VQ-1 It was equally as impressive during each visit!
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- Picture on the left: The center memorial lists the names of 36,279 that were listed as "Missing in Action"
in the Pacific Theater during World War II - Army and Air Force on one side of the memorial and Navy and
Marines on the other side."
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