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V II1UI1 Ul.MAJOfc DONAMajor Quigley wai reported missing to China September of 1*44. A brother. Second Lt Jwae A Quigley was reported missing over Austria about a week previously Both were lighter pilots The first Major Quigley beard of his brother's misfortune m as when he called hem* from San Francisco At that time, Jesse, missing a year had been declared lulled in action by the War Department, Oft ltttfc Ml—lew Don was on bis 137th mission when he waa shot down. That mission was to a Jap advance air field near Siangtan. China, onfRUMfVITAL‘Mott Import] icy Menip cut TomoWAftHITHWdent Truman toimporten •taadpaii •toe* at House, a praa said today Marking Nsv with foreign p The 23-mlnu ond the Presidi )□ New York, on all network The address m Eastern SU The first hk affair, will be aboard the m Frank] in D Brooklyn Navy assistant press the second sdin Central pa: portant since office.The Preside day in New * tram early to Leaving thenoon, he willAug. 10. 1044. Tbat was it. Hefilled in the details by saying that 11 arms fin, probably froma machine-gun gknack the oIMImof tbf F-40 he was piloting and the plms'fteW fin. Repofbd the craft up and hnDtd out, about Mo feet off the ground. TheK~ me crashed against a hlH ctoet . He loosened himself from the parachutO'ftBd ran for cover while the other six planes m the squadron were overhead, gaining about 300 yards and taking cover m a rice field before they left the area. He wax captured about 20 minutes later by 30 or 23 Japs brandishing guns and swords After hla capture, he had a “big time tnd was on the receiving end of blows aimed by the captors His arms bound he was walked several hundred yards to Chinese farmhouse, taken over* by th* entmy. Th.r* his feet «ndlegs were also bound and he was left in that manner for about a day and a half without food and water He received one meal of rice and soup before being taken to Hankow He was flown from a nearby airfield to a former Chinese prison In Hankow where h« was locked In a cell for 13 days 8m A aether Marta* Maa While at this prison, he saw Sgt Donald R Watts, son of Mr and Mrs Carl D Watts of the Smelt-rrr road 5(t Watts was brought in three days after Don amved They found they came from the same town and Major Quigley knew other members of the WattsAround 2:13 p boardpark to sourl about 2 I eon. At 3 30 on the destroy fleet review w 3 30 p m.After the n the tram *#■u h*r« Ha w4ll
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Marion Star
Marion, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 26, 1945
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