Topside Parade Ground - Struggle to Restore US Flag on Corregidor
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US Recapture of Corregidor from the Japanese: "I want you now to imagine this field in 1945. It is dusty, because all the vegetation is dead. There are shell-holes across it, and jagged branches of dead trees ring it like spears. The Americans who returned here on 16 February 1945 would hardly have been recognized by the men of 1942. They arrive in a fleet of aircraft that circle endlessly overhead for hours, dropping paratroopers in maneuvers that could not have been imagined ... At 2.30 in the afternoon, whilst this field around you is still being swept by rifle fire, whilst men are still bleeding and dying, two members of the 503d Parachute Regimental Combat Team, part of the ROCK FORCE, under the command of Colonel George Jones, are raising our 48 star flag once again. Their names, for those of you who might want to know such things, are Frank Arrigo and Clyde Bates. Their flag will remain flying throughout the days of heavy fighting, and it will be taken down on 2 March, only so a larger one can be hoisted to the top of the old flagpole, and saluted by General Douglas MacArthur." (Taken from the speech of former US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone on Corregidor Island, March 2, 2005 in ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the island's liberation from Japanese forces in World War II.)
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