Return to Corregidor by a Red Cross Man
Dec 2, 2020 12:50:38 GMT 8
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Post by Karl Welteke on Dec 2, 2020 12:50:38 GMT 8
Return to Corregidor by a Red Cross Man
This is a book put into a PDF file, by the US Army
Author: Harold Templeman
Abstract: Templeman was the American Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team, 503rd Parachute Infantry, 462nd Parachute F.A. Battalion, and 161st Airborne Engineer Company. This book contains information on those units to include information for their Presidential Citation and a list of names of the members of those units.
Number of pages: 71 p
This is the URL, click here:
mcoepublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/library/Documents/Hardcopy/paper/D793.33_T24.pdf
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There was another Red Cross man and crew on Corregidor. He has a webpage in Corregidor.com. Here is the title and URL!
“A Red Cross Man on Corregidor”. Click here for the URL:
www.corregidor.org/503_red_cross/hester.htm
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Corregidor.org has this reference about the Red Cross on Corregidor!
ROCK FORCE CONTENTS, has this URL and the Red Cross paragraph below. Click here for the URL, then scroll down:
www.corregidor.org/rock_force/rf_contents.html
The American Red Cross
The American Red Cross was represented at Corregidor by two extraordinary personalities, both civilians, and their support staff, whose names we do not have. Jumping with the 503d PRCT was Harold Templeman who, though not a paratrooper, became as much a part of the unit's history as any man. Templeman published the book "Return To Corregidor" which is as close to a Unit History as the 503d had at the time. It was Templeman who compiled the list of men who jumped on Corregidor which, though not gospel, provides us with the best source document of the men who jumped to battle there. (Corregidor Jump Roster) The second personality was Weldon B. Hester, the Red Cross Field Director with the 3dBn of the 34th Infantry Regiment, who landed across the beach. Hester had just come from 3 days at Zig-Zag Pass on Bataan, and before that, from 75 days of combat on Leyte. He had a reputation to keep - for serving coffee to the troops within an hour of arriving on a beachhead. His recollection is at “A Red Cross Man on Corregidor."
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Here are a few pictures in the front of the book.
Zd831. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd832. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd833. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd834. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd835. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd836. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
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Note from Karl: Above is the URL for that book in PDF form, so you can read the whole book that way. But in the future, I may copy more pages from that book and add them here.
That URL above was provided to me by the people of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team, who are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
Uploaded their intention to the forum, POW/MIA, Army Lt. Chester K. Britt, Hell Ship Oryoku Maru:
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2275/army-chester-britt-ship-oryoku
This is a book put into a PDF file, by the US Army
Author: Harold Templeman
Abstract: Templeman was the American Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team, 503rd Parachute Infantry, 462nd Parachute F.A. Battalion, and 161st Airborne Engineer Company. This book contains information on those units to include information for their Presidential Citation and a list of names of the members of those units.
Number of pages: 71 p
This is the URL, click here:
mcoepublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/library/Documents/Hardcopy/paper/D793.33_T24.pdf
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There was another Red Cross man and crew on Corregidor. He has a webpage in Corregidor.com. Here is the title and URL!
“A Red Cross Man on Corregidor”. Click here for the URL:
www.corregidor.org/503_red_cross/hester.htm
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Corregidor.org has this reference about the Red Cross on Corregidor!
ROCK FORCE CONTENTS, has this URL and the Red Cross paragraph below. Click here for the URL, then scroll down:
www.corregidor.org/rock_force/rf_contents.html
The American Red Cross
The American Red Cross was represented at Corregidor by two extraordinary personalities, both civilians, and their support staff, whose names we do not have. Jumping with the 503d PRCT was Harold Templeman who, though not a paratrooper, became as much a part of the unit's history as any man. Templeman published the book "Return To Corregidor" which is as close to a Unit History as the 503d had at the time. It was Templeman who compiled the list of men who jumped on Corregidor which, though not gospel, provides us with the best source document of the men who jumped to battle there. (Corregidor Jump Roster) The second personality was Weldon B. Hester, the Red Cross Field Director with the 3dBn of the 34th Infantry Regiment, who landed across the beach. Hester had just come from 3 days at Zig-Zag Pass on Bataan, and before that, from 75 days of combat on Leyte. He had a reputation to keep - for serving coffee to the troops within an hour of arriving on a beachhead. His recollection is at “A Red Cross Man on Corregidor."
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Here are a few pictures in the front of the book.
Zd831. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd832. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd833. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd834. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd835. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
Zd836. Fort Mills, Manila Bay Harbor Defense Fort on Corregidor Island recaptured, liberated from the Japanese Occupier from a book by the Red Cross Field Director for the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team.
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Note from Karl: Above is the URL for that book in PDF form, so you can read the whole book that way. But in the future, I may copy more pages from that book and add them here.
That URL above was provided to me by the people of the Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team, who are:
First is Dave Britt, LTC USAF (Ret), son of Chester K Britt, Vickie Graham CMSGT USAF (Ret), and John Duresky. They all graduated from Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1967, and are doing it as a team. Chester Britt graduated from Logan in 1933 and his mother Grace in 1934. Dave wrote most of the manuscript, John editing what he wrote and doing most of the research, and Vickie is the final editor with about 20 years of professional writing in her resume, largely with Airman magazine.
They are planning to write a book about Army Lt. Chester K. Britt soon!
Uploaded their intention to the forum, POW/MIA, Army Lt. Chester K. Britt, Hell Ship Oryoku Maru:
corregidor.proboards.com/thread/2275/army-chester-britt-ship-oryoku