- The Book : Combat Connected Naval Casualties World War II, by States 1946 Vol II Montana through Wyoming (Tennessee) page 821 name two McInturff : Reid Claude McInturff Seaman First Class USNR, son of Enos Monroe McInturff and Thomas Samuel McInturff Seaman Second Class USNR, mother Mrs Myrtle McInturff Route 1, Erwin.
Monument: Fort William McKinley, Manila, the Philippines.
According to the U.S. Navy Muster Rolls, 1944, page 107, Report of Changes of U.S.S. Albert W. Grant (DD649), Thomas Samuel McInturff was killed in action October 25, 1944, and buried October 26, 1944 on Leyte Island, Philippines.
According to Wikipedia, on 24 October, Albert W. Grant joined TG 77.2 and sailed to engage a Japanese task force reported steaming northward from the Sulu Sea toward Surigao Strait. That American battleship group met the Japanese force in the Battle of Surigao Strait, and Grant, along with other destroyers in advance of the main battle line, conducted a torpedo attack. During this attack, she was hit and severely damaged by gunfire, not only from Japanese naval forces, but also by its covering US battleships. Grant suffered 22 hits, many by six-inch shells. Fires broke out, and the ship lost steering control and all power. Thirty-eight men were killed and 104 were wounded. Although their ship was down by the bow and listing heavily to port, the destroyer's crew got her engines working again and enabled her to retire to American-controlled waters in Leyte Gulf.
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1920 - 1944 (24 years)
