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Pvt Neil W. Mc Intyre had attended Williston High School.

He enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 20 July 1944.

Sgt Donald A. Amundson who was riding in he same vehicle, stated th following about the incident that caused Pvt Mc Intyre's death: "At about 2100 on 7 April 1945 I was riding in an M-20 in convoy in the vicinity of Wehrden, Germany (this is Wehrden-Beverungen - note of FOHF) when I heard a small arms shot fired. Thinking that the machine gunner of the vehicle, who was Pvt Mc Intyre, was being fired upon by the enemy from the side of the road, I got out of the front seat and went to where he was sitting inside the turret ring. I asked him "Where are you hit-where is the pain?" He answered "In my stomach. I think I have to vomit". He next said "I Don't think I'm hit. I would like to move my bowels". That was quite impossible as we were moving.
Probably due to the shock he didn't know if he was hit. I opened his shirt and pants but could not see or feel any blood. He then complained of his testicles and he felt around them and sais he could find no blood. The column stopped and I got a flashlight from another vehicle and shined it over the area he said gave him pain, finally locating a small tear and blood on the bag of the testicles. I also noticed a gun laying at his feet with the barrel pointing at his tights. I asked, "Did you kick the gun and accidentally discharge it?" He answered that he thought he did. I then notified the Platoon Sergeant. Upon arriving at the town of Wehrden, Pvt Mc Intyre was taken to the aid station of the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry."

The surgeaon of the aid station, Capt Hiram W. Davis stated that he had a gun shot wound, penetrating the scrotum, with a possibility of entrance into the stomach. When asked how he had received this wound, he stated that he was traveling in an M-20. On top of a pile of equipment in this vehicle, he stated that there was a foreign make weapon, of a type that he had not previously seen? At the time, they were going over a bumpy road, and Pvt Mc Intyre stated that he believed that he might have hit the gun, and in so doing, caused the weapon to go off, and thus inflicting the wound. Mc Intyre was in serious condition and he was evacuated immediately to the 102nd Evacuation Hospital whitout waiting to draw up the usual statements which accompany an accidental shooting.

The 102nd Evacuation Hospital was stationed in Warburg at that time. A day after Pv Mc Intyre was wounded, he died in this hospital.