Calum's video: Fort Drum: America s Unsinkable Concrete Battleship

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. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/calumraasay Concrete Battleship : Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J Allen (highly reccomended!) https://www.concretebattleship.org/contents.htm A wonderful history and archive of Fort Drum found here: https://www.concretebattleship.org/contents.htm Twitter......................►https://twitter.com/calumraasay Instagram................►http://instagram.com/calumraasay Website....................►http://calumgillies.com 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