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Summertime 1951: When livin' was easy


PORT OF ALL CALM Sunset at the Manila bay (Photo by Lawrence Ruiz)
Manila Bay was a paradise for fish and fishermen in the years after the war. Its clean deep waters were littered with half-submerged wreckage of planes, ships, and war material from both sides of the conflict, which became ideal homes for aquatic life. Talakitok, lapu lapu, banak, kitang, and tanigue were among the high-value species sheltered by metal relics.
The price of scrap metal was so low it was not profitable to salvage the war souvenirs.
Like hundreds of weekend fishermen, my father spent Sundays trying his luck among the wrecks. He was a swimmer in school, but his competing years were cut short by World War II. To catch fish, he swam after them with a homemade spear gun. ....

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War and Romance on Manila Bay


Published February 22, 2021, 12:33 AM
WALA LANG
Seniors old enough remember cannon booms, smoke, and flashes of light reaching Dewey Boulevard from across the bay, from Bataan and Corregidor where Filipino and American soldiers were making a stand against Japanese invaders. That was exactly 79 years ago in February 1942.
Manila and Clark Field were bombed by the Japanese on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941. War had begun and President
Manuel L. Quezon and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur evacuated government and the military high command to Corregidor on Dec. 26, just before the Japanese entered Manila the following week on Jan. 2. ....

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