MOMENTS IN PASSING
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MOMENTS IN PASSING Ebook

The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment in Australia & New Guinea

by Paul F. Whitman

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Their training in Australia couldn't pass fast enough for them. You could see it in their boyish faces. They wanted to get on with the job. These are their moments in passing - the glimpses of the faces of the 503d PIR in Australia and New Guinea. Their brief, sudden shining lay ahead. On their return, you could see the faces of men.



Selections from Chet Nycum's Collection - images of the 503d PIR in Australia and New Guinea.



Illustrated, 160 pages.
Features & Details
  • Primary Category: History
  • Version Fixed-layout ebook, 160 pgs
  • Publish Date: Mar 31, 2012
  • Last edit May 25, 2023
  • Language English
  • Keywords New, Guinea, Australia, Airborne, Paratroopers, 503rd, 503d, WWII
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About the Creator
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Paul F. Whitman
Australia Philippines

Through the Corregidor Historic Society and, more recently the 503d PRCT Heritage Regiment., Paul presents thirteen publications, all connected in some way with Corregidor and the US Armed Forces in the SWPA during WWII. He started developing the Corregidor.Org website about the 1941-42 siege and the 1945 retaking of Corregidor as a penance for being an insolvency lawyer. Now retired, he has produced ten websites, more than a dozen Military History books, and has co-produced, with Peter Parsons, the documentary of the 1945 retaking of Corregidor - "CORREGIDOR - THE ROAD BACK. He married Rosie in 1980, has three adult children, and hates cats. He lives between two shores, Corregidor and Brisbane, Australia.

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