el fraile island造句

• Consequently, El Fraile Island was fortified and incorporated into the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays.
• Spanish batteries on the south shore near Punta Restinga and on El Fraile Island opened fire on the shadowy ships.
• At the end of the month, " Raleigh " passed El Fraile Island and was fired on by an enemy battery.
• The same battalion assaulted and captured Caballo Island, 27 March, and Fort Drum on El Fraile Island, 13 April . 1st Battalion 151st Infantry captured Carabao Island on 16 April.
• Military engineers had cut away the entire top of El Fraile Island down to the water-line and used the island as a foundation to build a reinforced concrete " battleship ", long and wide, with exterior walls of concrete and steel thick.
• "' Fort Drum "'( originally known as "'El Fraile Island "'), also known as " the concrete battleship, " is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island.
• An hour after its 23 : 00 sailing, just off El Fraile island, Six children less than five years old, and nine children between six and 16 years of age were among the dead or missing, including six students on a championship team sent by schools in northern Mindanao to compete in a journalism contest.
• Several Taft era fortifications in the Philippines were attacked and captured by Imperial Japanese forces within a few months of the U . S . entry into World War II . Fort Mills, Fort Hughes, Fort Drum ( El Fraile Island ), and Fort Frank guarding the entrance to Manila Bay were subjected to a three-month siege that ended when U . S . forces surrendered on May 6, 1942.