ROCK FORCE CONTENTS
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1945 MAP

A digital version of the original 1945 jump map is now available

 

Reports of Gen. MacArthur - Corregidor - Negros

Triumph in the Philippines - Corregidor - Official History

Corregidor Island Operation - USAFFE Board Report No. 308

Post Operation Reports - a selection

 

 

503 Prcht. Inf. Rgt.

  503d PRCT On The Rock Website    503d Heritage Bn. Website   PIR Lineage    RCT Lineage    Jump Training
3d Bn PRCT on Corregidor   503 PRCT Still Photo Archive

Bless 'em All

 

462 Field Artillery Bn. (Prcht.)

Corregidor Field Orders - Operation 48 

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3d Bn. 34 Inf. Rgt.

   Lineage    A Brief History of the 34th Infantry Regiment

   Corregidor Coordination - Lt. Col. E.M. Postlethwait

   34th Infantry Regiments on Corregidor - Paul J. Cain

   We Storm Corregidor - Jan Valtin

Pacific Journal - William McKenna

Two Hour Tourist on Corregidor -  Phil Nast

Bloody Corregidor Battle Recalled -  Tulsa World, 1978

Camera at War - Corregidor -  Jim Mathis

Approaching Black Beach - Signal Corps Photographs

Surface of the Moon - Nicholas & William Russiello

On The Beach at Corregidor - Weldon B. Hester

 

 

Co. "C", 161 Airborne Engineer Battalion

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18th Port. Surg. Hosp. (Reinforced.)

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Observations by Capt. Charles M. Bradford, MD.

 

 

3rd Platoon Antitank Co. 34 Inf. Rgt.

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3rd Platoon Cannon Co. 34 Inf. Rgt.

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  M-7 Mission to Topside - John D. Reynolds

 

Co. "A" 34 Inf. Rgt

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3rd Platoon Co. "C". 24th Med. Bn.

 

Detachment Serv. Co. 34 Inf Rgt.

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Btry. A  950 A.A.A. (AW) Bn.

 

174 Ordinance Service. Detachment, (Bomb Disposal Squad)

 

Detachment,  592 Engineer Boat and Shore Rgt.

On to Corregidor with the 592d EBSR   2d Engineer Special Brigade

 

Detachment, 98 Signal Bn.

Detachment, 1st Platoon 603 Tank Co.

Detachment, 592 Joint Assault Signal Co.

Detachment, 6th Support Air Party

Combat Photo Unit "A" G.H.Q. Signal Station

Combat Photo Unit "Q"  G.H.Q. Signal Section.

Mopping up the other islands of Manila Bay

 

Company B, 113th Engineer Battalion was moved to the island on the 23 February.  It was not a part of the Rock Force.

 

2d Battalion 151st Infantry Regiment was not a part of the Rock Force, but was was detached to relieve the 3d Bn 34th Infantry, and landed on Corregidor's Black Beach on 24 February 1945. It thereafter continued mopping-up operations in league with the 503d PRCT, assisting to secure the island sufficiently that on 2 March Colonel Jones could present General MacArthur with Fortress Corregidor at the formal raising of the flag on  the old Spanish flagpole at Topside.  The entire island was turned over to the 151st on 8 March. From Corregidor, the 2d Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment assaulted Caballo Island, about a mile south, on 27 March.  Fire support was provided by the 163d Field Artillery Battalion from Corregidor, and by the 150th Field Artillery Battalion from Bataan. Mopping up operations lasted until Company F was relieved on 13 April.  Some Japanese did remain on the island, and in fact twenty Japanese resisted capture until 1 Jan 1946.  

317th Troop Carrier Group - "Jungle Skippers"

 

Though not a part of the Rock Force,  the Jungle Skippers, comprising  the 39th, 40th, 41st and 46th Troop Carrier squadrons of the 317th Troop Carrier Group, under Col. John Lackey, delivered us to the jump zones and kept us supplied during the critical times.  Their Transport Orders are available for the Corregidor Operation.  They have a website.   

17th Recon Squadron, 71st Recon Group, 5th Army Air Force -

 

Though not a part of the Rock Force, we include them here as they were involved in the pre-mission reconnaissance, and in covering the jump photographically with their big-negative cameras.  A detachment operated from Dulag Airfield, Dulag, Leyte from 9 February until the end of the war. The 17th  recon Squadron flew P-38/F5's and B-25's and extensively photographed the island.  (They also bombed from their B-25's.) We feature two series of images, one known as the Fred Hill Collection, a truly exceptional series of medium resolution air-to ground images  photos, including some spectacular detailed images of the Jump. The second is a series of low resolution contact prints of the big negatives themselves.  Photographic prints are still available from Fred Hill, the unit's former photo-lab chief.

 

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