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Your easiest way to support us is your membership donation, for which we shall send you a Members CD and a Digital Map. 

BUT there are other ways to say
"Hey, thanks! for the website." 

 

1. BUY SOMETHING AT OUR PX

2. DONATE SOMETHING

3.  SUPPORT A PROJECT

 

WEBSITE ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
If you have any form of digital or internet talent - we'd love to hear from you. We have in mind:

(a)  a database program which can search all the individual records of the 503d PRCT personnel;

(b) a Flash  Welcome Page, which will operate a searchlight beam guided by the user's mouse,  highlighting each aspect of the site;

But we're open to suggestions.

 

PROJECT COMPLETED
THE CORREGIDOR DIGITAL ORDNANCE MAPPING PROJECT.

Project Major Sponsor & Coordinator: Martyn Keen of Perth, Australia.  Project Members: John Moffitt (Canada), Karl Weteke (USA) and Paul Whitman (Australia). 

It took us some years to acquire our first maps of Corregidor. We have been reproducing them and selling them with all proceeds going towards my life of wine, women and song, yachting off Santorini and my inclusion as a Mission Specialist in the next Shuttle Mission.

In association with Martyn Keen of Perth, Australia we are now digitizing Corregidor with a  series of freshly drawn maps based upon the historic maps in our collection.  The major project involves the completion, in digital pdf form, of the 50, 20 and 5 foot contour maps of Corregidor.

This will be cross-referenced with GPS precision, and a number of overlays and subsidiary maps are being prepared.

Several other maps are being produced and digitized.

 

Currently,  new members will be e-mailed a 1921 digital map upon receipt of their joining donation.

 

HONOR AWARDS PROJECT
Was a member of your family awarded an Honor Award involving Corregidor or the 503d PRCT in some way?  Are you interested in doing some research of a worthwhile nature? We are compiling pages for the major award winners of the 503d PRCT, and (if there's anyone wanting to contribute to it, the Siege of Corregidor.) We don't need money - just citations.  See a sample page.

 

ARCHIVE RESEARCH PROJECT
I am based in Australia and the Philippines, and haven't been researching in the USA since 2001.  So if you are inclined to become a researcher for materials, or even to contribute digital copies of items you have found in  your travels, or in your Dad's footlocker, contact  us.

 

MILITARY RECORDS PROJECT
If you are current, or retired Military, or even just a military buff, why not start researching in this area? The great majority of items which we have acquired relate to the 2d Bn of the 503d PRCT. The Morning Reports and Journals of the other battalions are all entirely different, and we don't have any of them.

 

THE FORBIN PROJECT  
The creation of an artificially intelligent self-aware computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses.  Project Coordinator: Dr. Charles A. Forbin.*

 

CORREGIDOR PROJECT  
Our major annual venture. In association with Corregidor Historic Society, a 1 week "intensive" exploration of The Rock is normally scheduled around a significant date involving the island - for instance, we have raised a 48 star US flag on the old Spanish flagpole each year for the last several years on16 February (the anniversary of the Parachute drop). This is not a guided tour, you find your own way there, we promise nothing. - It is a get-together of people interested in all aspects of Corregidor history, and who happen to enjoy each other's company.  Also a regular beer bust, due to a recalcitrant Aussie participant.  For the genuine Corregidor aficionados.    Refer the reports about earlier visits.(2000, 2001)

 

PROJECT COMPLETED
"COMBAT OVER CORREGIDOR"

This is an project to ensure that Charlie "Doc" Bradford's manuscript is published.  The manuscript has been utilized by every major Corregidor historian, however the 503d PRCT Association now has the permission of the Doc's estate to see the manuscript published.  John Lindgren's Introduction and Chapters 1 , 2 & 3 are  featured on this website, as a teaser.  Don Abbott & Paul Whitman,  Project Co-ordinator. 
More about this Project

 

"BLESS 'EM ALL" PROJECT 
The compilation of the authoritative history of  2/503 tracing it throughout WW2.  Bill Calhoun & Paul Whitman, Project Co-ordinators.  More about this Project

 

PROJECT COMPLETED
"FRANK FOSTER'S COLLECTION"

The preservation of the most comprehensive private collection of photos taken of the 503d PRCT during the Mindoro and Negros campaigns.   Steven Foster, Project Co-ordinator. 

 

PROJECT COMPLETED
THE STATES PHOTOGRAPHS

The photographs of the members from each State, taken on Mindoro after returning from Corregidor, as printed in Templeman,  are being transferred from the original (but obsolete) glass negatives to safety film, under the guidance of master photographer Fred Hill.  They will then be hand printed to Museum specifications, and eventually will be converted to high resolution digital format.   The ability to reproduce from fragile glass negatives is a lost craft, and can now be accomplished by only the most extraordinary craftsmen using custom built enlargers.  Two sets of large format film negatives are being produced, a master and a backup.  Fred Hill was a member of the  17th Photo Recon Squadron, which covered the return to Corregidor. 
Bob Flynn, Project Sponsor & Co-ordinator; team Members  Fred Hill, Paul Whitman.      More about this Project 

 

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