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Personal info

Full name
MAC INTOSH, Irving J B
Date of birth
10 January 1916
Age
29
Place of birth
Windsor, Broome County, New York
Hometown
Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
39726479
Rank
Corporal
Function
Tail Gunner
Unit
337th Bombardment Squadron,
96th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 January 1945
Place of death
Lith-Oss, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 21 14

Immediate family

Members
John E. Mac Intosh (father)
Maude A. (Humpstead) Mac Intosh (mother)
Leona M. Mac Intosh (sister)
Alberta A. Mac Intosh (sister)
Pauline H. Mac Intosh (sister)
Doris H. Mac Intosh (sister)
Marjorie C. Mac Intosh (sister)
Irene I. Mac Intosh (sister)
Roy Mac Intosh (brother)
Zora (Sluga) Mac Intosh (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
44-6589
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Bachelor's Belle
Destination: Hohenbudburg, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yard
MACR: 16248

More information

Cpl Irving J. Mac Intosh attended college and was employed by McLean's as a member of the maitenance staff.

He enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 31 January 1944.

Just after 12:00 the airplane was hit by flak and started to spin out of control. The pilot, Eugene E. Dasso, managed to level the plane and two parachutes were seen leaving the plane. After a second parachute was seen the plane started again to spin out of control and crashed.

Since there were only nine crew members on board and eight were found dead in the wreckage, the fact that someone saw a second parachute must be wrong. Only one crew member was found alive.

Cpl Mac Intosh is remembered at Vestal Hills Memorial Park in Vestal, Broome County, New York.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.fold3.com - MACR 16248, www.anestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Mark Kunzman, 3 March 1945 - Press and Sun-Bulletin