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"Bill Bailey's Photo Collection" |
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- Photos from Bill Bailey's
private collection - Corregidor in color!!"
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"Combat Over Corregidor"
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- The definitive history of
Corregidor by a participant, this manuscript
by Dr. Charles Bradford was the "anonymous" source for the Devlin
and Flanagan books. §
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"Combat Photos of Corregidor"
- The Heritage Collection
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- Tony Sierra ("D" Coy) sent in some photos, and
we've also collected a few ourselves "from the Gavin Collection."§
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"Charles A. Durden's
Photo Collection" |
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- Three dozen photos of the 503d PRCT in Mindoro and Negros. § |
From the Brisbane "Truth" Newspaper - 23
July 1944 |
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- A story of murder, a Court Martial, and some very dubious
machinations of officialdom to have a 503d trooper transferred out
of the state so he could be executed. There's a film script in
this one. |
"The Lost Road" |
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- All too often, tales are
spun of battles which are figments of men's ambitions. The record
is here corrected. |
"Mac Gallaspy's Photo Collection" |
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- Photos from Mac's private
collection of Corregidor photographs |
"My Day With The Rattlesnakes" |
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It is said about
historians that everything they print is absolutely accurate, except
those items about which you have a close personal knowledge and which
they got completely wrong. Well, sometimes I feel that way about the
"F" Company's descent of Grubbs Ravine on 22 February 1945
because, as Bill McDonald once told me, "If you're
thrown in a den of rattlesnakes, you won't forget one moment of it. -
Bill Calhoun |
Negros was No
Playground
(The View From "B" Co., 1st Bn.) |
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When John Reynolds completed the “Partial History of the 503d Negros Mission”
he did not have the benefit of any comments from “B” Co. Louis Aiken, a
platoon sergeant of "B" Co. co-authored this article with John Reynolds. |
"Night at
Battery Wheeler"
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John Lindgren
revisits the scene of The Night - Still, in my view, the finest
article on the website, it catches the bittersweet memories which
are the essence of a Corregidor Revisited. It does for Corregidor
what the first chapter of Bernie Lay's Twelve O'Clock High
did for the 8th Army Air Force. |
"The Night of
a Thousand Hours"
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On
the night of the 18/19th February, the weight of the initial
Japanese attack fell upon F Company dug in over the magazine of
Battery Hearn. Earlier that day, F Company had taken Battery
Smith, and had withdrawn to positions atop Battery Hearn and
Way Hill. Bill Calhoun presents the comprehensive study of the
action, and the lessons learned.
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"Operation Topside" - Pictorial
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- A
spectacular pictorial catalogue of large format (10'x8') photographs
of the parachute drop of 16 Feb 1945 - now available direct from
Fred Hill, who was a member of the Recon Unit.
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"An Outline
of Events at Wheeler Point on 18 and 19 February, 1945" |
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More
years ago than I'm sure he cares to remember, John Lindgren felt the
compulsion to get to the bottom of what happened that night at
Wheeler Point. This article was his starting point, and though
he resolves some old questions, new ones are sure to
arise. This won't be the final word on the topic, but
for the moment we bring it to you perhaps as your
starting point towards understanding the Battle at Banzai
Point.
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"A
Partial History of the 503d's Negros Mission" - A chronology |
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The 503d's Negros Campaign was not only extensive,
it was also multi-phased and complex, and it evoked ambiguous and
sometimes vastly conflicting memories as to what occurred. John Reynolds
comprehensive article includes a chronology and a four phase analysis of
the most difficult campaign of them all. |
"Recapture of Corregidor"
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Reprint of a contemporary article
from the Vol
III No. 4 (April 1945) edition of the official Confidential AAF
publication for pilots and bombardiers, IMPACT.
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"Return to the Rock"
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The text is reproduced from the Vol III
No. 9 (Sept-Oct 1945) edition of IMPACT, the Army Air
Forces' Confidential Picture History of World War II.
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"The Strange Tale of Suicide Cliff" |
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- The story of Suicide Cliff is just that - a story. There was no
mass suicide there, and the stories of them were perpetrated by
unscrupulous operators seeking big tips from Japanese tourists.
The area, known to members of D Company, 503d PRCT as "Banzai
Cliff" has a more interesting origin. |
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