Destruction of Fortifications on Caballo Island & Fort Drum Concrete Battleship
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- US Army engineers burn out Japanese fortifications on Caballo Island and the concrete battleship Fort Drum in Manila Bay, Philippines in 1945. 113th Battalion engineers lay a pipeline up the side of a hill on Caballo Island and pump a fuel mixture into the fortifications and proceed to burn out the enemy soldiers. On Fort Drum (El Fraile Island) , 38th Division infantry & engineers use a hose to pump the mixture into air vents and 600 lbs. of TNT is used to destroy the soldiers who have refused to surrender.
Public domain footage produced by the US Army Signal Corps' Army Pictorial Service.
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My grandfather served on LSM 51 and used to talk about this Fort Drum Operation. Nasty business.
Is he still around? I wonder what he would feel if he saw the condition of Fort Drum nowadays. Now a common ground for adventure vloggers and fishermen in Cavite.
Drove to ternate today just to see it. It silently watches the sea, like a beast waiting to be called on battle again.
Why on earth did they censor both explosions? They thoroughly documented and filmed the entire operation, yet all we see is the smoke rising a few seconds after each explosion.
Troops entered Fort Drum once it had cooled off. They had to have taken pictures of the fort’s equipment, and, obviously, charred human remains. I will post a query on the Coast Defense Study Group site. Some of the members have enormous archives.
Sadly tho, philppine government forgot about this historic place..
They didn't even thought of protecting the area prohibiting junkers to scrap some of it.
But fortunately a philippine tv channel made a documentary about this forgotten behemoth and made the government remember it..
To those who served in the Philippine theater we salute you for your sacrifice in bringing peace to this land.
People tend to forget how horrific WWII was, can you imagine the uproar today if we had to pour oil into some fortification in Iraq or Afghanistan to burn them out. Still we do have fuel air bombs that suck the air right out of caves now. Guess we're getting more efficient at it :-)
I may be late, but I'll reply anyway. The difference is, that today it's outlawed
@@olegkupran5284You responded to a seven year old comment and then liked your own comment. I would feel like a total loser if I did that.
@@TJ-W I know it's been seven years. You don't need to be petty about it
@@TJ-W And I did not liked my own comment, you did
LIKE to those who wants to restore the El Fraile (Fort Drum)
Would be a true sight, but there is no way to do that: the explosion blow up the hatch on the top of the fort and severly damaged the concrete walls, plus the diesel/gasoline mixture they used burned inside for like 5 days.
I hope this historical fort drum will be restored again
There really isn't much left. Scrappers have taken so much from the site. I think only 1 turret has both it's barrels....The most iconic thing left on the island.
El fraile the *"Real"* unsinkable battle ship
Not with the nuclear bomb
@@wendellbelisario2395 still they cant sink it...
The Battle Ship *”EL FRAILE”* Is Unsinkable Because Its Concrate
Maka saysayan na panahon ..bigyan sana halaga ito !!....sayang o sinasayang lang .
Sinayang, hindi isinalba para sa mga susunod na hemerasyon
0:24 just casually completing the assembly task amidst corpses. Man WW2 was no joke.
Looks like the same 14 inch gun turrets installed on South Carolina and Wyoming class battleships. Very unique defensive design.
DOUG HEINS
You are correct, my mistake. Interesting that the Army would take over, they must have procured a considerable amount of designs and plans from the Navy.
Late reply, but the SC and WY classes had 12-inch guns, and more ovoid turrets.
The turrets were unique to Fort Drum. There is a great contemporary photo of one of the turrets, mounted at the Fort Hancock proofing range.
why not restore them?
Sad to say, The Philippines doesn't have resources to renovate or to restore them. If only the United Nation would help to renovate or restore them.
@@caesarslegiondecanus9090 philhealth can restore it cuz they have 15 billion
After the Americans burn out the Japanese at Fort Drum near in Tenarte Municipality, Province of Cavite in 1945 until now on the future are turned the Philippine Government was planning to revive of Fort Drum are proposed to became name as Naval Base El Fraile of the Philippine Navy.
I have been inside the Fort Hughes magazines where the Japanese made their last ditch stand. The flooring is broken up, but we found small bones- fingers and toes, as well as cooked-off ammunition- no firing pin marks. I can imagine the terror- dark, suffocating, then heat, flames and explosions. Damn fools, of course. I have also been inside Fort Drum, which is simply a rubble-strewn cavern, with walls, ceilings and floors sledgehammered open to get to the rebar for scrapping. Again, it had to have been terrifying for the Japanese hold-outs.
They died quickly. The explosion inside the fort drum was so powerful, that it ripped out a giant heavy metal hatch on top of it and launched hundreds of feet up.
well, today people living near on that area collected a lot of metals to sell it to the junkshop
the Philippine government didn't preserve the Port Drum but they abandoned it.
Even some parts of the canyons were sold to the junkshop.
Some big junkshop owners with big equipments cut down thick metals inside the Port drum.
too sad.. the people doesn't care about it.. 😢
marjorie seguera Correction, Those canyons are just fell inside of fort drum if u’ve watched I WITNESS But u r right people just came there to pick some metals to sell but the other more canyos are just fell down inside.
k3nn3t Yap well, I think you need to watch another documentary of Kara David. some people on that area cut down metals that support the port drum. Big junkshop has a big interest of it.
na pag iwanan na nag panahon... and ibang kasaysayan nag aging bansa...
The Philippine Government need to reconstruct again this fort and use again as defender of capital city against chinese invation.
+Leanne Sacapano yea this stronghold should be reconstruct by ph. gov. to defend the capital of ph.
It would be a sitting duck for cruise missiles and bunker bombs.
it could be..
We're entering an era of hypersonic missiles.
Fortifications less than a quarter mile deep beneath the earth are obsolete.
Large surface ships like aircraft carriers too for that matter.
Why They Dont Just Add A New Concrate Battleship in 2022?
this is the proff how dangerous human can be
Helluva way to go
68 deaths,and american troops couldn't return until 4 days later because of the heat from the fire
Agreed
Lesson: don’t touch our boats
El fraile was forgotten
make more in the philippines
+Lance Cupuchino Thanks for watching, and I will do that if I can find more footage.
HistoryFlicks4u np have a good weekend
+Lance Cupuchino and you as well, thank you.
HistoryFlicks4u actually my comment ment to say"make more el fraile fort in the philippines" but doesnt matter still a good video xD
Oh, I see. Hopefully you won't need them. I think it would be good if our next president reminds China how much they stand to lose if US markets are closed to their exports were they to make any moves against our friends in the region.
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Had the US-soldiers german ancestors? It seems to me they had the "Holocaust-Gen". 😛