From the Museum's Digitial Collections, firsthand narration to accompany the recent images from 17,500 feet below the Pacific waves. 

On Memorial Day and every day, the name of Richard McCurdy, killed in action during Operation Torch, and other boys like him should be kept alive and their sacrifices and those of their families remembered. They were and are part of a nation, a city, a neighborhood, and a family.

Hundreds of the ship's crew floated on the Pacific for days. Their location and fate were unknown to the US Navy. 

As 1943 turned to 1944, PT-305 departed New Orleans, and she would not be back for more than six decades. 

Julia Child is known more for her recipe for bœuf bourguignon than her time in the Office of Strategic Services.