Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee

Permanent Veteran Record

Ralph H. Burns

BranchNavy
RankMotor Machinist Mate Third Class
Conflict / EraWorld War II
Years of Service06/23/1944 – 02/16/1946
Date of Birth08/24/1922
Date of Death02/27/2009
HometownUNKNOWN, OH
AwardsAsiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Philippine Liberation Ribbon
Burial LocationDarby Twp: St. Paul's Lutheran
Monument PaverSection B
SourceVeteran form submitted 07/31/2006 by Sara Halley; Certificate of Honorable Discharge, Union Co. Recorder's Office, Vol. 5, p. 405; $100 Paver 10/14/09 by Family, 14881 Robinson Rd., Plain City, OH 43064. | obit, Marysville Journal Tribune 3-2-2009

Overseas service: Leyte Gulf; Okinawa and Tokyo, Japan. Church: St. Paul's Lutheran - Chuckery. School: Chuckery-Darby High School. anchored in Leyte Gulf; delivered Japanese who surrendered in Okinawa and took them to Tokyo; This was on a LST boat going through a typhoon

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