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Born on September 21, 1945.

    
On November 24, 1970,

    at the age of 25,

    he gave his life in Quang Tri Province,

    South Vietnam.

    
Honored on the Vietnam Memorial

    on Panel 6W, Row 79.

    












 




  

    
      
 

      
McINTOSH, IAN

      

      
Name: Ian McIntosh

      Rank/Branch: W1/US Army

      Unit: Company A, 2nd
      Battalion, 17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division

      Date of Birth: 21
      September 1945 (Scotland)

      Home City of Record:
      St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada

      Date of Loss: 24
      November 1970

      Country of Loss: South Vietnam

      Loss Coordinates:
      162919N 1064756E (XD920237)

      Status (in 1973):
      Killed/Body Not Recovered

      Category: 4

      Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:
      OH6A

      Refno: 1678
      
Source: Compiled from one or more of the
      following:

      raw data from U.S.Government agency sources,

      correspondence with POW/MIA families,

      published sources, interviews.


      Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.
 
      Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
 
      REMARKS: SYNOPSIS: The OH6A Cayuse (commonly called
      "Loach") was the result of the U.S. Defense Department's vision
      of a single helicopter able to perform such duties as personnel or cargo
      transport, light ground attack, casualty evacuation, observation, and
      photographic reconnaissance.

      It proved most effective at visual
      reconnaissance,however, searching out the enemy even in heavily defended
      areas, as the crew peered through gaps in the jungle canopy from the oval
      pod-shaped aircraft.

  









 

 


  

    
    
On November 24, 1970,

    WO1 Ian McIntosh was an observer on an OH1A

    helicopter (tail number 67-16484),

    flown by Capt. Robert J. Young,

    on an armed reconnaissance mission

    with two Cobra gunships southeast of Khe Sanh.

    

    
The aircraft had been flying for approximately

    an hour and 3 minutes

    when the crew observed what appeared to be

    a new NVA living area.

    The Cobra gunships engaged the target,

    and the OH6A subsequently

    entered the target area to assess the damage.

    The OH6A was hit by automatic rifle fire on the underside

    in the left front area where WO1 McIntosh was sitting

    (nearly the entire front from above head level to

    below knee level was glass).

    
Capt. Young immediately left the target area, noticing that WO1 McIntosh

    was in a great deal of pain and trying to straighten up.

    At that time, the aircraft engine quit,

    so the pilot attempted to land in an open area.

    The aircraft burst into flames

    before crashing in the vicinity.

    
Capt. Young believed WO McIntosh died

    shortly after the crash.

    The flames were starting to enter the cockpit,

    so the pilot pulled himself out, and just as he got out,

    the aircraft became engulfed in flames.

    
Three minutes later, the helicopter exploded

     with WO1 McIntosh still inside.

    
Ian McIntosh was declared Killed, Body Not Recovered.

    
His name appears among the missing

    because no body was found to return home for burial.

    He is one of two Canadians on the U.S. military rolls

    of missing, and one of many from that country 

    that willingly volunteered to fight

    against the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.

    
 















  

  

    

      
  

    

  

  






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CANADIAN VIETNAM VETERANS QUEBEC MEMORIAL

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  REEVES, JOHN HOWARD
  


Name:  John Howard Reeves
Branch/Rank:   United States Marine Corps/E3 
Unit:   D CO 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MAR DIV 
Date of Birth:   28 October 1943 
Home City of Record:   CANADA 
Date of Loss:   23 December 1966 
Country of Loss:   South Vietnam 
Loss Coordinates:  155305 North 1081331 East
Status (in 1973):   Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered 
Category:   5 
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:   GROUND 
Missions:------ 
Other Personnel in Incident:------ 
Refno:------  
 

Source:

Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more

of the following:

Raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,

Correspondence with POW/MIA families,

Published sources, 

Interviews and CACCF =Combined Action

Combat Casualty File.




REMARKS:

CACCF/DROWNED/SUFFOCATED/QUANG NAM

Quang Nam 15 miles SW of Hui An.

No further information available at this time.












 




 

 


  

    The cases of
    many of the missing are not so easily closed.

    Some were photographed as captives; some wrote letters home from POW camps.

    Others were alive and well the last they were seen or heard from,

    describing an advancing enemy. Still others simply disappeared.

    Thousands of reports continue to mount that Americans are alive

    in Southeast Asia, held prisoners, yet the U.S. seems unable

    or unwilling to secure their freedom.

    Men like Ian McIntosh freely gave all they had

    for the price of freedom.>

    
 
    
 
    
Can we turn our backs on these men?

    

    
 
    
 








 


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  The North Wall is a memorial wall

honouring those brave Canadian men

who fought and were lost in Vietnam.


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