About the Author
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Blurbarian Since
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September 2007
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Name
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Paul Whitman
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My Web Site
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http://corregidor.org
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Location
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Brisbane, Australia/ Manila, Philippines
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Gender
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Male
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My Occupation
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My Bio
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Through the Corregidor Historic Society and the 503d PRCT Heritage Bn., Paul presents two publications from the website's corcunopia of resources:
AMID TH' ENCIRCLING GLOOM is the poignant recollection of a naive America caught up in a war of almost unimaginable gloom. Its protagonists are Al McGrew and Spncer Bever, two school friends from Columbus, Ohio, who sign up for adventure and instead find themselves in the midst of the Fall of Corregidor. Al, who "aged from seventeen to forty in six months," is a peculiar amalgam of strengths and weaknesses, but his memories of those times are of crystal clarity.
COMBAT OVER CORREGIDOR is a tribute to the humanity, camaraderie, teamwork and strength of purpose of the ordinary American citizen soldier in the 1940's rather than a sequential retelling of individual battles on a distantly relevant Philippine battlefield.
Paul is married with 3 children. He is a retired lawyer, presently living in the Philippines.
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Things I Don't Mind The World Knowing
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Spoiler alert: I'm thinking my next book will be about... |
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one of the greatest secrets of WWII - that there were paratroopers fighting the Japanese in the Pacific! Yes, it wasn't all Saving Private Ryan! |
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Everyone needs to know about these authors and artists... |
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Charlie Bradford was a surgeon in the Second Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, when it retook Corregidor in one of the most dangerous airborne envelopments of World War II. "Wherever you were, you could turn around and Charlie would be there," one veteran later commented. It was a life defining moment for all of them. Throughout his life, though, Charlie would talk little of it. Instead, he wrote a manuscript, which he forbade from publishing until after his death. |
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This book is addictive. Read it. (At your own risk.) |
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COMBAT OVER CORREGIDOR is a tribute to the humanity, camaraderie, teamwork and strength of purpose of the ordinary American citizen soldier in the 1940's rather than a sequential retelling of individual battles on a distantly relevant Philippine battlefield. The manuscript remained an insider's secret for over fifty years, but it can now take its crucial place in the 503d PRCT's History and Heritage. |
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