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Box 15

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Battle of Leyte Gulf naval message, 1944 Nov 1

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 263
Scope and Contents

Naval message from Radio Leyte sending thanks and appreciation from Douglas MacArthur to William Halsey for his naval support during the Leyte Gulf Operation.

Dates: 1944 Nov 1

Chester Kiesel report, 1945

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 270
Scope and Contents

Typed accounts of Army Air Force B-29 pilots Kiesel, Bill Pitts and Robin Stevenson of 504th Bomb Group who were shot down on a mission from Tinian to Japan by the Japanese. The pilots give an account of their rescue by U.S. Navy submarines.

Dates: 1945