Cubi Point O-Club Reprise

Upon closure in 1992, the vast collection of squadron memorabilia displayed in the Cubi Point Officers' Club was shipped to the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida, and now forms the decor of the Cubi Bar Café, which opened in 1996 as the museum's restaurant. We had a great lunch there. I spent some time looking for a familiar Gulfstream pilot name on the plaques on the walls, but didn't see any.

Know anyone who should named be on these walls?

After World War II, the Navy decided they needed a Naval Air Station near Subic Bay in the Philippines. The SeeBees moved half a mountain, blasted a bunch of coral, and hacked acres of jungle to establish a 10,000 foot runway. NAS Cubi Point was commissioned in 1956. In June of 1991, Mount Pinatubo covered it with an inch of ash. The Navy cleaned it up in about four months, but in September 1991, the Philippine government voted to require the United States to withdraw from all of its facilities in the Philippines. The withdrawal was completed in November 1992 and the airfield became the Subic Bay International Airport.