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Subic Spanish Gate
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The gate marks the entrance to the Arsenal de Olongapo, the naval yard the Spanish Navy was authorized to build in March 1885. It once carried gunports and doubled as a jail. In December 1944, survivors of the Oryoku Maru's sinking were herded into a fenced tennis court near the gate as prisoners of the Japanese. The structure survived the entire American base era and now stands inside the Freeport zone.
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