Video: '503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, Corregidor Invasion, Philippine Islands, February 16, 1945'

(Friday, February 16, 1945, 8:33 a.m. PHT; during the Battle of Corregidor (1945), part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — The Battle for the recapture of Corregidor began today as the first of one thousand troopers of the 503rd PRCT based at Mindoro, began dropping out of C-47 troop carriers of the US Thirteenth Air Force.