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Post by EXO on Mar 19, 2009 23:29:41 GMT 8
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
The 503d PRCT Heritage Bn. website has recieved a few papers which we cannot OCR into useable text by means within our scanning technology. We're seeking a volunteer to transcribe the following documents into a word document:-
Document A: Operation of the "Rock Force" on Corregidor - Personal Experience of an Assistant Regimental Operation Officer - Capt. Magnus L. Smith, 42 pages;
Document B: The Operation of the 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, Corregidor - Personal Experience of a Regimental Adjutant - Maj. Lester H. Levine, 71 pages.
The volunteer will be sent a pdf file.
The documents will be added to the series of monographs from the Advanced Infantry Officers Coure at The Infantry School, Ft. Benning.
Here's your opportunity to "say thanks".
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Post by fots2 on Mar 20, 2009 8:23:42 GMT 8
You can send me one of them EXO.
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Post by EXO on Mar 28, 2009 11:15:55 GMT 8
Thanks, John, I sure appreciate the assistance. It's a boring job, but it's not thankless.
OK folks, there's one paper remaining in this immediate project - the paper written by Capt. Magnus LO. Smith.
At the time, Smith was the Assistant Regimental S-3. He remained in the Army, and by 1959 Colonel Smith become Group II commander of the clandestine special operation "White Star" in Laos.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2009 4:17:47 GMT 8
Do you still need assistance with this? I'd be happy to volunteer
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Post by EXO on May 29, 2009 7:47:03 GMT 8
Thankyou Mary, I will send you the *.pdf file of the Operation of the "Rock Force" on Corregidor - Personal Experience of an Assistant Regimental Operation Officer - Capt. Magnus L. Smith, 42 pages. The addition of readable versions of these papers adds to the availability of excellent sources of research. At present, we have six of these Infantry School Monographs. Though they shouldn't be used as the primary documents of history, they are excellent for the background and familiarity with the campaign, and the military and command principles they contain. Once again, thanks for volunteering. EXO
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2010 21:33:30 GMT 8
EXO I've emailed the document to you - please let me know if you do not receive it and perhaps I can snail-mail it to you Thanks
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Post by EXO on Jul 2, 2010 13:49:55 GMT 8
Mary Claire Megargle, as part of our volunteers wanted program, has transcribed the Operation of the "Rock Force" on Corregidor - Personal Experience of an Assistant Regimental Operation Officer - the paper submitted by Capt. Magnus L. Smith to the Infantry School when he took the Advanced Infantry Officers Course in 1949-50. If you do take the time to read it, be cautious that it isn't a historical document, but a paper written to illustrate the "School Solution" and thus isn't Gospel. For example, I particularly like his telling that at a staff meeting at Topside on the evening of the 20th February, there was an intelligence report that " there were no Japs to oppose our forces from Wheeler Pt to Searchlight Pt.” DUH!!! Tell that to "D" and "E" Co's. As we know all too well, the Japanese at Battery Monja-Wheeler Point were NEVER beaten! In 1945, Capt. Smith was the Assistant Regimental Operations Officer of the 503d PRCT. By June 1960, as an LTC, he commanded a clandestine special ops Team II inserted in Laos, "Operation White Star." The article starts at: corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/smith/RF_Ops_01.htmlOnce again, I thank Mary for the time and effort she put into assisting us. Gee, what would it be like to have a Bn of folk like her, with her positive attitude!
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