PRIVATE WILLIAM W. MacIntosh 11020655 KIA

PRIVATE WILLIAM W. MacIntosh 11020655 KIA 20th Air Force. Private MacIntosh graduated from Haverhill Trade School and was employed at Carroll’s Diner before entering the Army. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps October 11, 1939, at Portland, Me., and received his training at Fort Slocum, N. Y. He was sent to Manila, January 4, 1940, where he was assigned as a ground man at Nichols Field with the 20th Air Force. He was officially declared a prisoner-of-war, January 29, 1943. Private MacIntosh was among the 750 prisoners of war on board a Japanese prison ship which sailed from Davao, Mindanao, August 20, 1944, and was torpedoed and sunk September 7, 1944, off the western coast of the island. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Stella MacIntosh, Newbury, Mass.

 

1- Haverhill Massachusetts – Haverhill  in World War Two

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