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All of the
company briefed for the mission. We have the honor of jumping and
recapturing
Corregidor. General MacArthur has sent his blessing and wishes God's
speed.
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MacArthur
summed up our feelings well, and to be selected as the main force which would
retake our great island fortress, this symbol of our might, was a great honor.
We knew it. Everybody felt it was a great honor. We were at our best, and we
were the best. Now after all the frustrations, missions planned
and missions cancelled, we could truly say we were 'proud we were allowed
to be one of the crowd of the parachute infantry.'* |
Fitzhugh Millican |
"Rovolis and I were tearing down
our part of the tent, and he found a
war-time penny. I told him that he'd found his luck
but he
replied that he had his luck and gave the penny to me. After we got on the plane Fitzhugh gave everyone a Tampa
Nugget Cigar which we jumped
with. The order of our stick was Gulsvick, Rovolis Mosolini, High, Hicks,
Marcus, and Millican. Hicks was a new replacement who had come over recently
as a replacement in the grade of sergeant. Like many others he had taken a
voluntary reduction." |
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