Clark Air Base est 1903 was 14.3 sq. miles (23km) and extension of military reservation at 230 sq. miles (600km2) and the most urbanized, vast and largest military facility in history outside the U.S upon its closure in 1991. Thousands of Americans like me were born on this base, Inside was an entire different world compared to outside the base. To see how large it was just go to Clark Freeport and Clark international airport

At its peak around 1990, it had a permanent population of 25,000 Americans with their dependants and Filipinos. Today Clark airbase is now Clark freeport Special Economic Zone (CFEZ) an area spanning the city of Angeles and the provinces of Pampanga all the way to SM Clark, many of its original buildings are still there used for other purposes.

It had a base exchange, parade grounds field, 1000 base houses still present today, a 6 storey hospital, its own military TV network and radio station , large commissary, high schools, three middle and three elementary schools , base housing subdivisions , shopping arcade, branch department store, banks, car dealer yards , fast food chain outlets, cafeterias, teen centers, hotels, miniature golf, riding stables, zoo, 7 softball fields, 3 running tracks , community and sports events, and other concessions. Buses for people working on base and its own department. U.S police patrol and horse cops with 50 miles an hour zone speed limit .

Very large that it functioned as a U.S town. In 1942 most of Clark’s buildings and airbase were occupied and taken over by the Japanese Kempeitai, the first kamikazee took off from Clark during 1945