The Fabulous Downing Collection of Photos

Photos all have handwritten names on them. We set them to text here for the purposes of the search engines… Doing the best we can. Names are matched against the ship’s log when the ship originally sailed. If we find what looks like a match, we name the whole name.

Leyte aka Leyte Gulf    This photo and the ones like it intrigued me the most, even when I was a little child looking at the scrapbook.

Legend: McAllister   –  Myers  –  Rutland  –  Pell  –  Tayrien, Alfred David  –  Mosby  –  SARNO, Edward Francis  –  HOOPER, William  –  FAGAN, Bernard William   –  CARTER, Talmadge Dean  –  BARBITTA, Ignatius R.  –  Hickey –   SCHNOOR, Herbert Lester –  Kolisnowski, Alvin   –  KITZ,  Matthew William  –  Rogers  –  Jones  –  Mutch  –  HOWELL, Robert M.  –  FRENCH, Leonard Andrew

Ed Note: Downing had his good and bad writing days. Mostly good. Some bad. Special thanks to daughter Margaret for the excellent translation here.