Robert Gene McIntosh

BRANCH OF SERVICE
U.S. Navy

HOMETOWN
Orleans, IN

HONORED BY
Grateful American

ACTIVITY DURING WWII

ENLISTED ON 11 SEPTEMBER 1942 AT LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 30 DECEMBER 1942 ASSIGNED TO THE USS RIXEY APH-3, A TRYON CLASS CASUALTY EVACUATION TRANSPORT ASSIGNED TO SERVICE SQUADRON EIGHT IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATION. MARCH 1943 BATTLE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. JULY AND AUGUST 1943 NEW GEORGIA CAMPAIGN, MAY 1944 MARIANA ISLANDS CAMPAIGN, JULY 1944 INVASION OF GUAM, NOVEMBER 1944 LEYTE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, JANUARY 1945 LINGAYEN GULF, APRIL 1945 OKINAWA AND SAIPAN. EARNED FOUR BATTLE STARS FOR THESE OPERATIONS. RATING OF COXSWAIN.