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Raymond Downs finally got up the stairs and found the captain in the pilot house. The captain said they needed to get...

Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...

Lauren Swinney displays a hat from the 1940s with the V for victory emblem on the front of it. The V was a very...

Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec was born in February 1928 in Hildesheim, Germany. She had one sister who was...

Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...

After the war ended, Peggy Upham went back home [Annotator's Note: to Dallas, Texas]. There was no money for her to go...

Lauren Swinney had complications with her pregnancy and was admitted to the hospital over Christmas. The baby was born...

Thomas Crosby was born in September 1933 in Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao, Philippines. His mother, grandmother and aunt...

Raymond Downs and his family were taken to a hospital in Morgan City, Louisiana. They were not allowed to call their...

Thomas E. Warne was born in August 1930 on the dining room table of his parents' home on the Del Monte Plantation in...

Thomas Crosby remembered soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they attacked the Philippines. Using...

Raymond Downs and a historian wrote a book about the experience. He collected his mother's, father's, and sister's...

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