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Robert Zane Ingalls
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Good Fight, Reed North West Collection Category 1; The Volunteer Vol. XXIII, No. 3 September 2001 p. 21-22.
Full Database Record
| Last Name | Ingalls |
| First/Middle Name | Robert Zane |
| Ethnicity | |
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| Immigration Status | |
| Religion | |
| POW | |
| AKA Last Name 1 | Ingals |
| AKA First / Middle 1 | |
| AKA Last Name 2 | |
| AKA First / Middle 2 | |
| DOB | 1918 |
| City | Spokane |
| State | Washington |
| Foreign Nation | |
| Foreign Nation City | |
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| Family: Name | |
| Family: Relationship | |
| Family: Begin Date | |
| Family: End Date | |
| Family: Comments | |
| Education HS | High School |
| Education College / Univ 1 | |
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| Education College/Univ 2 | |
| Graduate or Doctoral Work | |
| Graduate or Doctoral Work Notes | |
| Prior Military Service | None |
| Passport # | 453215 |
| Passport Series | |
| Passport Reported Lost in Spain | X |
| Passport Age | 23 |
| Passport Date | |
| PP or Known Address Street | 1320 E 34th Avenue |
| PP or Known Address City | Spokane |
| PP or Known Address State | Washington |
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| Sail Date | |
| Ship | Berengaria |
| Marital Status | Single |
| Marital Notes | |
| Vocation 1 | Automobile Mechanic |
| Vocation 2 | |
| Vocation 3 | |
| Party Affiliation | None |
| Date Affiliation | |
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| Arrival (in Spain) Date | |
| Units served with | First Regiment de Tren, 2nd Squadron, Driver - rank SGT |
| Battle action | |
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| Returned Date | |
| Returned other | |
| WWII Service | Civilian worked for Boeing |
| DOD | 2001-05-08 |
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| Place Died City | |
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| Additional Notes |
Biography
Ingalls went to Spain from Seattle at an early age. In 1937, at age 17, he was made sergeant in the transport
section with a crew under his command running a telephone service from a truck. During World War II, Ingalls
worked as foreman of final assembly at Boeing.
Later, he brought his engineering skills into the television industry and taught at a community college in Tacoma. He later designed the internal television systems for the University of Washington’s School of Medicine and Nursing.
His family has established the Robert Z. Ingalls Memorial Endowment Fund at South Seattle Community College.
Ingalls, a vet from Redmond, Washington, died May 8, 2001, of a heart attack while on a family trip.
—Bob Reed