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Show Reported Missing; Later Reported Wounded M-S L. R. Cropper received word Saturday from M-S Donald Mcintosh, Mcin-tosh, that their grandson, Meldon J. Mcintosh was reported missing in action somewhere in the Philippines. Phili-ppines. Wednesday morning another an-other telegram came from government govern-ment slating he had been one of the survivors picked up. He had been wounded, but not seriously a telegram stated. He would have completed his missions in 3 weeks and was planning plan-ning on coming home for a furlough. fur-lough. In one of his last letters to his mother he said " I am plenty busy as I am right in the thick of it." Recently the Tribune had an interesting article about him entitled, entit-led, A WORKING DAY With the Navy, Philippines The primary duty of the men who fly the navy search planes between the Philippines and China is patrol-ing patrol-ing rather than bombing, but they manage to work in plenty of "extra "ex-tra duty" from time to time. For example, consider a reent day's work by one of the new Privateers, Pri-vateers, of which Meldon J. Mcintosh, Mc-intosh, aviation radioman third class is a crewman. Mcintosh is a top turret gunner. On this day, Mcintosh's plane knocked off four railroad trains, a Jap bomber, two trucks and a large launch. After thoroughly covering their search sector, the Navy airmen air-men were headed home, flying a-long a-long the east coast of Formosa, when they spotted the Jap bomber on an airfield. The machine gunners gun-ners let go with all they had, and the plane burned and exploded. Meanwhile two Jap trucks were seen scurrying along the field's edge, and the gunners again went to work, destroying both. The group then followed a railroad rail-road track along the coast. Sighting Sight-ing a locomotive, the crew went in strafing. Their tracers hit home & 1 the engine exploded. In less than 1 an hour they had destroyed three 1 more. Heading out to sea, the search 1 plane spotted a large launch hid-' hid-' den in a cove and wound up its day's work by pouring 800 pounds 1 of mahine gun fire into the vessel. ' It burned and sank. |