Rock Force Corregidor book
Rock Force Corregidor book
Autographed Rock Force Corregidor book
503rd PIR paratrooper Dick Adams
Dick Adams autographing Rock Force bookplates
Dick Adams on Corregidor
General Douglas MacArthur
Paratrooper Dick Adams on Corregidor
Dick Adams greets 173rd Airborne paratroopers
Paratrooper Dick Adams of the 503rd PIR

"Rock Force" with paratrooper autographed bookplate

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  • Discover the Pacific War's Band of Brothers in the new book Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthur's Revenge on Japan. We have hardcover first printings with a bookplate designed exclusively for Valor Studios that has been autographed by MSG. DICK ADAMS, the LAST KNOWN paratrooper who jumped on Corregidor! Enjoy the newsreel below of Dick's regiment in action that day. 


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  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of No Easy Day comes a thrilling World War II story of the American airborne soldiers who captured a Japanese-held island fortress

    In late December 1941, General Douglas MacArthur, caught off guard by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, is forced to retreat to Corregidor, a jagged, rocky island fortress at the mouth of Manila Bay. Months later, under orders from the president, the general is whisked away in the dark of night, leaving his troops to their fate. It is a bitter pill for a fiercely proud warrior who has always protected his men. He famously declares "I shall return," but the humiliation of Corregidor haunts him, even earning him the derisive nickname "Dugout Doug."

    In early 1945, MacArthur returns to the Philippines, his eyes firmly fixed on Corregidor. To take back the island, he calls on the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, a highly trained veteran airborne unit. Their mission is to jump onto the island—hemmed in by sheer cliffs, pockmarked by bomb craters, bristling with deadly spiky broken tree trunks—and wrest it from some 6,700 Japanese defenders who await, fully armed and ready to fight to the death.

    Drawn from firsthand accounts and personal interviews with the battle's surviving veterans, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Kevin Maurer delves into this extraordinary tale, uncovering astonishing accounts of bravery and heroism during an epic, yet largely forgotten, clash of the Pacific War. Here is an intimate story of uncommon soldiers showing uncommon courage and winning, through blood and sacrifice, the redemption of General MacArthur.

  • The Department of Defense news report below, about the 75th Anniversary of the Corregidor assault, features commentary by Dick Adams. 


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