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BATTLE HISTORY, BATTERY D
462d PRCHT FIELD ARTILLERY
BATTALION
(NEGROS OPR.)
On 29 March 1945 the Battery
was alerted for the Negros
Island P.I. operation. The
mission, as planned, of the
503d Regimental Combat Team
was two effect a parachute
landing of the 2d and 3d
battalions, 503rd Parachute
Infantry and supporting
batteries of the 462nd
Parachute Field Artillery
Battalion near Victorias,
Occidental, Negros. The 1st
battalion 503rd Parachute
Infantry, Battery C, and the
3d platoon of Battery D,
462nd Parachute Field
Artillery Battalion, were to
drop near Fabrica,
Occidental, Negros and
capture the sawmill there.
The enemy, foreseeing such
action, destroyed the
objective and in so doing
completely changed the
operational plan of the
Combat Team.
On 6 April 1945 the third
battalion, 503d Parachute
Infantry; Battery “A” and
the first platoon of a
Battery D, 462d Parachute
Field Artillery Battalion;
enplaned at Mindoro Island,
P. I. and flew to Ilo Ilo,
Panay, P.I. They were
followed the next day by the
2d Battalion 503d Parachute
Infantry, Battery B, and the
2d platoon of Battery D.
Their mission was to
reinforce elements of the
40th Infantry Division,
which landed on Negros
Island, 4 April 1945.
After landing at Ilo Ilo,
Panay; the force was ferried
to Negros; landing south of
Bacolod, Occidental,
Negros. At the beach the
force was met by trucks of
the 40th Infantry Division
and transported to the 503d
Regimental Combat Team
Sector of operation, 7 April
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