Sangley Point Naval Base is a military base of the Armed Forces of the Philippines located in Cavite City in the province of Cavite. The base was also a former U.S. naval base. The base occupies the northern portion of the Cavite City peninsula and is surrounded by Manila Bay. During the World War II era, the base was the home of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet and 16th Naval District, as well as USAFFE's Offshore Patrol. Military branches Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps and Coast Guard), Air Force Military manpower - military age 18 years of age (2001) Military manpower - availability males age 15-49: 22,435,982 (2004 est. ... Cavite City is one of the cities of the province of Cavite in the Philippines. ... Cavite is a province of the Philippines located on the southern shores of Manila Bay in the CALABARZON region in Luzon, just 30 kilometers south of Manila. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Manila Bay is the harbor which serves the port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Asiatic Fleet was part of the US Navy. ... USAFFE (United States Army Forces - Far East) included the Philippine Department, Philippine Army (2 regular and 10 reserve divisions), and the Far East Air Force (formerly, Philippine Army Air Corps). ... The Offshore Patrol (Mosquito Fleet) was a rudimentary navy, intended for inshore defenses only, called for by the Philippine National Assembly in its National Defense Act of 1935. ...
Sangley Point Naval Base is currently home to most vessels of the Philippine Navy fleet while nearby Danilo Atienza Air Base is headquarters of the Philippine Air Force's 15th Strike Wing.
List of major battles Battle of Bataan Battle of Mactan Battle of Corregidor Battle of Pulang Lupa Balangiga Massacre The Battle of Mactan The Battle of Mactan on April 21, 1521 was the first reported resistance of the natives in the Philippines against foreign invaders. ... The Military history of the United States spans a period of less than two and a half centuries. ...
Cavite City was called Puerto de Cavite (Port of Cavite), during the early part of the Spanish rule, being a port of entry and departure for Spanish and foreign ships.
The area was utilized, in 1898, as a Navalbase by the US Naval Forces supervised by Americans while the region was governed by Filipino Presidente Municipales. The Philippine Commission united the three pueblos of Cavite Puerto, San Roque and Caridad, in 1903, to create the Municipality of Cavite.
Well-known for its magnificent view of the sunset, Cavite City is bounded on the north and west by Manila Bay, on the east by Cañacao Bay, on the south by Noveleta and on the southeast by Bacoor Bay.
The Japanese attack on the US navalbase at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and simultaneous attacks on other US and British bases in east Asia and the Pacific, was promptly followed by declarations of war against Japan by the USA and Britain.
This meant the breakdown of Japan's original strategy, which relied on the bases in the Carolines, Marianas, Philippines, and Ryukyu Islands as ‘unsinkable aircraft carriers’ for covering Japan's maritime communications to the mainland of Asia and the Malay Archipelago, and for preventing a close approach of the enemy by sea to the Japanese homeland.
It was the moment for Japan to risk a naval battle, and in October 1944 the main strength of the Japanese navy was deployed in a determined attempt to crush the US naval force that was covering the invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines.
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