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HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN SOMETHING WORTHWHILE We're mostly a web-based
community, but not entirely. Your easiest way to support us is your membership
fee, for which we shall send you a CD.
You don'T have to be a
member, there are other ways to say "Hey, thanks!" for the website.
WEBSITE ENHANCEMENT
If you are a web professional and wish to contribute any features or
enhancements, we'd love to hear from you. We have in mind:
(a) the code development of a database program which can search all the
individual records of the 503d PRCT personnel;
(b) Flash presentation for the Home Page, which will operate a
searchlight , guided by the user's mouse, to highlight each aspect of the
site;
HONOR AWARDS PROJECT
Was a member of your family awarded an Honor Award involving Corregidor in
some way? Are you interested in doing some research of a worthwhile
nature? We are compiling pages for the major award winners of the 503d
PRCT, and (if there's anyone wanting to contribute to it, the Siege of
Corregidor.) We don't need money - just citations. See a sample page.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROJECT
I am based in Australia and the Philippines, and haven't been researching in
the USA since 2001. So if you are wanting to become a researcher for
materials, or even to contribute digital copies of items you have found in
your travels, or in your Dad's footlocker, contact us.
MILITARY RECORDS PROJECT
If you are current, or retired Military, or even just a military buff, why
not start researching in this area. The great majority of items which we have
acquired relate to the 2d Bn of the 503d PRCT. The Morning Reports and Journals
of the other battalions are all entirely different, and we don't have any of
them.
503d PRCT HERITAGE BATTALION WEBSITE
Our major project. In association with Corregidor Historic Society, we
support and develop the website as the means by which new generations can learn
who we were and what we did. Its focus is to inform, to inspire, to
involve and above all, to educate. Bandwidth is not cheap, and the rich
magazine style of the website, with its copious photographs and maps, is a bandwidth
monster.
CORREGIDOR PROJECT
Our major annual venture. In association with Corregidor Historic Society, a 2
week "intensive" exploration of The Rock is normally scheduled around
a significant date involving the island - for instance, we have raised a 48 star
US flag on the old Spanish flagpole each year for the last several years on16
February (the anniversary of the Parachute drop). This is not a guided tour, you
find your own way there, we promise nothing. - It is a get-together of people
interested in all aspects of Corregidor history, and who happen to enjoy each
other's company. Also a regular beer bust, due to
a recalcitrant Aussie participant. For the genuine Corregidor aficionados. Refer
the
reports about earlier visits.(2000,
2001)
PROJECT COMPLETED
"COMBAT OVER
CORREGIDOR"
This is an project to ensure that Charlie "Doc" Bradford's
manuscript is published. The manuscript has been utilized by every major
Corregidor historian, however the 503d PRCT Association now has the permission
of the Doc's estate to see the manuscript published. John Lindgren's Introduction
and Chapters 1 , 2 & 3 are featured on this website,
as a teaser. Don Abbott & Paul Whitman, Project Co-ordinator. "BLESS
'EM ALL" PROJECT
The compilation of the authoritative history of 2/503
tracing it throughout WW2. Bill Calhoun & Paul Whitman, Project Co-ordinators.
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COMPLETED
"FRANK
FOSTER'S COLLECTION"
The preservation of the most comprehensive private collection of photos taken of
the 503d PRCT during the Mindoro and Negros campaigns. Steven Foster, Project
Co-ordinator. PROJECT COMPLETED
THE
STATES PHOTOGRAPHS
The photographs of the members from each State, taken on Mindoro after returning
from Corregidor, as printed in Templeman, are being transferred
from the original (but obsolete) glass negatives to safety film,
under the guidance of master photographer Fred Hill. They will then be
hand printed to Museum specifications, and eventually will be converted to
high resolution digital format. The ability to reproduce from fragile
glass negatives is a lost craft, and can now be accomplished by only the most
extraordinary craftsmen using custom built enlargers. Two sets of large
format film negatives are being produced, a master and a backup. Fred Hill
was a member of the 17th Photo Recon Squadron, which covered the return to
Corregidor. Bob Flynn, Project Sponsor & Co-ordinator.
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