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. It's consutuction and took years and for much of it's history, it was regarded as strange, unique oddity on the horizon of manila bay. For a brief few months amid the desperate defence of the Philippines during WWII, it proved to be a formible and impervious foe.

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Concrete Battleship : Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J Allen (highly reccomended!)
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0:00 - Introduction
1:37 - The Islands of Manila Bay
2:13 - El fraile Island & The Battle of Manila Bay
3:23 - Fort Drum - Early Proposals & Designs
6:02 - Fort Drum - Final Plans & Layout
7:40 - Naming Fort Drum
7:57 - Constuction Begins
8:27 - Armament
11:11 - Construction Finishes
12:00 - Garrison & Early Troubles
13:53 - War Preperations Begin
15:32 - A Date That Shall live in Infamy
16:03 - Philippines Invaded
16:46 - Fort Drum's Strong Defenses
19:43 - The Fall of Bataan
20:05 - The Last Line of Defence
20:49 - The Fall of Corregidor
22:21 - Fort Drum Fights on?
24:11 - What Happened to the Garrison?
25:01 - Allies Retake the Philippines
25:22 - Fort Drum Abandoned?
26:24 - Fort Drum's Final Seige
30:25 - What Remains of Fort Drum Today?
31:54 - Outro & Waffling on a bit