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Press Release | May 9, 2024

Marine Accounted for from WWII (McIntosh, L.)

WASHINGTON  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Lewis O. McIntosh, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 1, 2024.

In July 1944, McIntosh was a member of Charlie Company, First Battalion, Twenty-fifth Marines, Fourth Marine Division. He was killed July 4 during Operation Forager on the island of Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands. Marines ashore on the island were under constant assault from Japanese mortars, which caused heavy casualties and impeded American’s movements. The exact cause of McIntosh’s death is unknown, and his remains were not known to have been recovered. The War Department declared him non-recoverable in 1951.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or call (703) 699-1420/1169.