page_title: Naval Station Sangley Point
section_title: World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Naval Station Sangley Point / American period / World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial photo of the Japanese air attack on the U.S. Naval Station Sangley Point, Philippines, on 10 December 1941. The Naval Air Station Sanlgley Point is on the right, the Cavite Navy Yard is burning in the lower left.
context_page_description: Naval Station Sangley Point was a communication and hospital facility of the United States Navy which occupied the northern portion of the Cavite City peninsula and is surrounded by Manila Bay, approximately eight miles southwest of Manila, the Philippines. The station was a part of the Cavite Navy Yard across the peninsula. The naval station had a runway that was built after World War II, which was used by U.S. Navy Lockheed P-2 Neptune, Lockheed P-3 Orion, and Martin P4M Mercator maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft. An adjacent seaplane runway, ramp area and seaplane tender berths also supported Martin P5M Marlin maritime patrol aircraft until that type's retirement from active naval service in the late 1960s. NAS Sangley Point/NAVSTA Sangley Point was also used extensively during the Vietnam War, primarily for U.S. Navy patrol squadrons forward deployed from the United States on six-month rotations. The naval station was turned over to the Philippine government in 1971. It is now operated by the Philippine Air Force and Philippine Navy.
context_section_description: The first bombing by the Japanese on 10 December 1941, heavily damaged the Cavite Navy Yard.  Japanese forces occupied Cavite in January 1942. the Japanese continued to use Sangley and Cavite for basically the same purpose.  They rehabilitated and expanded the facilities and used them for repair of their own craft and construction of small wooden vessels for coastal shipping of supplies.
  American carrier-based planes first bombed the repair facility in September 1944.  The Cavite Navy Yard was again badly damaged, as were most of the hospital buildings at Cañacao.
  On 20 March 1945, units of the Seventh Fleet landed on Sangley Point, ridding the area of the remaining Japanese.  Within a month, ACORN-45 arrived and set up an advance base maintenance organization under Commander Donald W. Darby.  Seabees from the 12th Naval Construction Regiment immediately began construction and repair of the base and airfield.
caption: A Japanese air raid on 10 December 1941 leaves the Cavite Navy Yard in flames.
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