Filed Under: World War History
Fort Drum, originally known as El Fraile Island, is a huge, now ruinous complex of concrete and steel that once guarded the southern entrance to Manila bay.
Its construction and took years and for much of its history, it was regarded as strange, unique oddity on the horizon of Manila Bay. However, for a brief few months amid the desperate defence of the Philippines during WWII, it proved to be a formidable and impervious foe.
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