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Francis E. McIntyre
722nd Squadron
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Francis E McIntyre entered the USAAF from Marshall, Indiana.
Duties included basic at Shepherd Field, Tx., Ellington Field, Tx., LaredoTx. Gunnery School and San Marcos Navigation School before graduating in the spring of 1944.
He left for Oran North Africa from Virginia, the trip took one month. Oran to Naples and on to Manduria and the 450th.
He was assigned as a Navigator with the Crew of Glen D. Babbitt in the 722nd Squadron.He was the recipient of the Air Medal with Cluster.
Francis left Manduria in April of 1945 to return to The USA to train in a B-29 but spent the rest o fthe war in Souix Falls, South Dakota.
He graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1949. After a brief stint working for Inland Container he was recalled and stationed at Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Tx.
as a navigatoron a B-36. Francis was the navigator on the B-36 test ship for the Hydrogen bomb explosion, Project Ivy. He received a Commendation for his work.
In 1957 he graduated Southwestern Medical College(University of Texas) in Dallas and married the former Mary Harrell of Indianapolis. They moved to Austin, Texas
for internship and Francis went in to family practice .
In 1970 he took his wife and three daughters to Manduria to show them the base and to track down the laundry girls.
The Count of Oria allowed him and his family to see the castle.
Francis is still in practice in Texas and can be reached by E-Mail
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