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Casualty Info
Home Town Mill Shoals, IL
Casualty Date Dec 07, 1941
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Hawaii
Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Attack on Pearl Harbor
Location of Interment Shrewsbury Cemetery - Mill Shoals, Illinois
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Seaman/1c Dancil McIntosh was Killed in Action on December 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was stationed on board the USS Pennsylvania BB-38.
Comments/Citation:
Seaman Second Class (S2c) Dencil Jeoffrey McIntosh, United States Navy. Service Number: 3372121
Early Life
Dencil Jeoffrey McIntosh was born on 26 December 1920 Mill Shoals, White County, Illinois. His father Charles McIntosh, born 1887 in Illinois, died 1948 in Illinois, was a Farmer and later a Bridge Laborer. His mother, Mary Lottie "Mollie" Harlan was born on 21 August 1891 in Mill Shoals, White County, Illinois and died in 1941 in Illinois. Dencil’s parents were married on 14 June 1913 in Mill Shoals Village, White County, Illinois. Dencil was the youngest of three children in the family; he had two older sisters.
Military
Dencil Jeoffrey McIntosh enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 9 October 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri. After boot camp and additional follow-on training, he was assigned to the Battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) which was stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii when the Japanese attack occurred. He reported aboard USS Pennsylvania on 15 December 1939.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941 the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was not among the other battleships lined up on battleship row. She was in a dry dock near the USS Downes and the USS Cassin. Her crew manned her guns and fired upon the attackers. As she was not in the water at the time, she avoided any torpedo hits but did suffer damage and the loss of 18 of her men.
Death and Burial
Dencil Jeoffrey McIntosh was Killed in Action on 7 December 1941 aboard the USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal. He is buried or memorialized at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Honolulu, Hawaii and is also memorialized at the Shrewsbury Cemetery in Mill Shoals, White County, Illinois.
This story is part of the Stories Behind the Stars project (see www.storiesbehindthestars.org). This is a national effort of volunteers to write the stories of all 400,000+ of the US WWII fallen saved on Together We Served and Fold3. Can you help write these stories? Related to this, there will be a smartphone app that will allow people to visit any war memorial or cemetery, scan the fallen's name and read his/her story.
