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The Second Battalion, 503d
Tracing the 2nd Bn through the Early Days -
Nadzab - including
The Journal of Second Battalion Adjutant Jerry B. Riseley
Port Moresby - Brisbane - Dobodura - Noemfoor - Operation Table
Tennis
November 1943-November 1944 -
Under Construction
Leyte-Mindoro - Operation Love III
November 1944 - 15 February 1945-
Corregidor
16 February 1945 - 8 March 1945 - The most successful parachute
assault of WWII.
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Chapter 1 |
16 February, 1945 |
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4The
Landing |
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Chapter II |
17 February, 1945 |
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Chapter 111 |
18 February, 1945 |
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4The
Night of a Thousand Hours |
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4Night
at Way Hill |
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Chapter 1V |
19 February, 1945 |
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Chapter V |
20 February, 1945 |
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Chapter VI |
21 February, 1945 |
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4"E"
Co & "F" Co. |
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Chapter VII |
22 February, 1945 |
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4My
Day With The Rattlesnakes |
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Chapter VIII |
23 February, 1945 |
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4The
Lost Road |
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Chapter IX |
24 February, 1945 |
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Chapter X |
25 February, 1945 |
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Chapter XI |
26 February, 1945 |
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The Day of Tears |
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Chapter XII |
27 February - 8 March 1945 |
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Appendix - Red Cross
Man on Corregidor |
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4Appendix
- "D" Co. Roster, 16 Feb, 1945 |
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4 Appendix
- "F" Co. Roster, 16 Feb, 1945 |
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4Appendix
- The 2nd Lt - Dorval R. Binegar |
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4Appendix 6
- "Memories of a Tragic Day" - Letter Jack Herzig to Lou
Aiken & Don Abbott, 29 November 1990. |
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4Gallery
- Tracing the Tokaido Road |
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Negros
8 April 1945 - 12 May 1945 - The most stupid use of elite paratroopers
during WWII.
The most logical and acceptable way to understand the
Negros mission is to consider it progressing through fours phases with
the approximate dates as follows:
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PHASE I |
8 April 1945 |
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12May 1945 |
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Advancing across the plains eastward of Silay, along the "Tokaido
Road" and facing an enemy well equipped with automatic weapons
and well entrenched in the foothills, the terrain growing
steadily more rugged as we compressed them into the mountain
trails. It was a slugging infantry war, and the Regiment was
poorly supplied and poorly supported. |
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PHASE II |
13 May 1945 |
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9 June 1945 |
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Moving to the other side of the mountain range
and ascending the mountain trails to contain the Japanese in the
rainforest areas into which they had been forced to flee during
Phase 1. It was constantly wet , hot and clammy during the day
and wet cold and clammy during the nights. Tropical diseases
reduce fighting effectiveness of the patrols, but intensive
artillery and effective mortar support can still be applied
against the Japanese strongpoints. |
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PHASE III |
10 June 1945 |
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8 July 1945 |
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Moved to the west coast,
the Regiment is spread more than
sixty miles along the main highway towns which parallel the
coast, from Dumaguete in the south to Fabrica in the north east,
with many operations being conducted in very small groups. |
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PHASE IV |
9 July 1945 |
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15 August 1945 |
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Constant patrols in force, some extending over
several days, directed east of the mountains into which the
Japanese had been pressed. A so-called 'mopping up' in which the
remaining Japanese forces, though splintered, actually outnumber
the RCT by a factor of at least two to one. |
The Negros Campaign is presently linked through the
1945 Calendar Navigation system, commencing 8 April
1945, with a week to each page. Extract
41Lt.
Norman Turpin |
