“On Friday, 16 February 1945, at 0825 Lt. Col. ‘Big John’ Erickson, commanding officer of 3d Battalion, 503d RCT, crouched in the open jump door of a C-47 flying at 1,150 feet above the waters of Manila Bay. The pilot held the plane at 110 knots on a northeasterly course. Erickson, loaded with his combat [...]
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Corregidor: The Homecoming – Pt. 1
Posted in Pacific, World War II (1939-1945), tagged 1945, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Corregidor, Kembu Group, Philippine Islands on February 16 | Leave a Comment »
