Back to Corregidor : America retakes the rock / Gerard M. Devlin

Back to Corregidor : America retakes the rock / Gerard M. Devlin

World War, 1935-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Corregidor Island.

Researched account of the liberation of Corregidor in 1945, giving particular emphasis on the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment which jumped onto Topside in a move to surprise the Japanese. The book describes the heavy fighting that took place, particularly since American intelligence had seriously underestimated the strength of the Japanese.

The author, a military historian who served as an enlisted man in Korea, was a paratrooper in this same unit and knew many of those who jumped onto Corregidor in 1945.

Devlin, Gerard M.

New York: St. Martin's Press, c1992.

1992

22 x 15 cm.

Hardbound

312076487

D 767.4 .D47 1992

12072

xxvi, 261 p.

ill., maps