Fort Frank

Fort Frank
Carabao Island, Philippines
Part of Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
Manila Bay forts in WWII (inset)
Site information
Controlled byUnited States
Site history
Builtcompleted 1913
Built byUnited States Army Corps of Engineers
Battles/warsPhilippines campaign (1941–1942)
Garrison information
Garrison
Fort Frank (Carabao Island).
14-inch (356 mm) M1910 gun fires at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California.[1]
12-inch (305 mm) mortars, similar to those of Battery Koehler.

Fort Frank (Carabao Island, the Philippines) was one of the defense forts at the entrance to Manila Bay established by the United States. The entire island was designated as Fort Frank, in honor of Brigadier General Royal T. Frank, as part of the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays built by the Philippine Department of the US Army in the early 1900s.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Coast Defense Journal, Vol. 31, Issue 2, May 2017
  2. ^ McGovern, Terrance; Berhow, Mark A. (2003). American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress, 4). Osprey Publishing (UK). ISBN 1-84176-427-2.
  3. ^ Bogart, Charles. "Carabao Island's Fort Frank". The Corregidor Historical Society. Retrieved on 10 March 2018.
  4. ^ Fort and Battery Names in the Philippines at Corregidor.org