HEADQUARTERS
503D REGMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
Office of the Commanding
Officer
APO 73
6 March 1945
SUBJECT: Historical Report,
Corregidor Island Operation.
(Operation
No. 48).
TO : Commanding
General, Sixth Army, APO
442.
1. The assault on enemy
held Corregidor Island
(Operation No. 48) was a
combined parachute drop and
amphibious landing by our
ground troops supported by
air and naval action.
2. The mission of the
assault troops (Rock Force)
was to seize and secure
Corregidor Island and to
destroy all enemy forces
thereon as part of the
greater mission of securing
the Manila Bay
area.
3. The
forces involved in the
operation included:
a. Ground Troops (Rock
Force):
(1) 503d Regimental Combat
Team:
(a)
503d Parachute Infantry
Regiment.
(b)
462d Parachute Field
Artillery Battalion.
(c) Co C,161st Airborne
Engineer Parachute Bn.
(2) Third Battalion, 34th
Infantry Regiment,
reinforced by:
(a) 3d Platoon, AT Co, 34th
Inf.
(b) 3d Platoon, Cannon Co,
34th Inf.
(3) Second Battalion, 151st
Infantry Regiment (Relieved
3d Battalion, 34th
Infantry).
(4) Eighteenth Portable
Surgical Hospital (reinf).
(5) 174th Ordnance Service
Detachment (Bomb
Disposal-Squad).
(6) Detachment 592d EB and
SR.
(7) Detachment 9801 Signal
Battalion.
(8) Detachment 1st Platoon,
603d Tank Co.
(9) Detachment 592d JASCO
(10) Detachment 6th SAP.
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