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John Walter MacIndoe

1920–2011

Colonel (retired)

WWII: England operations officer; later infantry company commander in Germany. Korea: recalled 1950; promoted lieutenant colonel. Later Germany/NATO, Pentagon, Vietnam (reported Mar 1967), National War College / Office of the Chief of Staff; retired 1 Jul 1972

Documented decorations

John Walter MacIndoe’s Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal (VA wording: several bronze stars, without a published device count), and four Purple Hearts are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his career. This decorations page records those three types from that VA list. It will not invent a Combat “V” or an oak-leaf tally the VA sentence does not carry.

Born 17 September 1920, MacIndoe entered through Penn State ROTC, commanded an infantry company in Germany after England staff work, and was recalled for Korea. Later tours took him to Germany and NATO, the Pentagon, and Vietnam in 1967. He retired as a colonel on 1 July 1972 after more than thirty years. He died 15 August 2011 at age ninety. The Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal type, and four Purple Hearts are the published decoration names. Postwar consulting work is public fact. It is not printed here as a medal.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

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