RAYMOND
BURNS
Coram
Navy
Raymond Thaddeus Burns was born on July
17, 1923 at New York City. He was the son of Anna (Oettinger) and Leo
Burns. Before the war he was a student attending the Colorado School of
Mines. He was living at Coram when he
enlisted on October 20, 1942 at Patchogue. He was trained
as a Naval Aviator and left the country in January of
1945 on the USS Suwannee. He was assigned to Torpedo
Squadron 40, and made 35 strikes against Okinawa Japan,
Borneo and the Philippines. For his service he was awarded a
Distinquished Flying Cross and an Air Medal. Burns returned to the United
States on December 10, 1945 and was discharged six days
later.
Lt. Burns
is Home
Patchogue Advance
December 6, 1945
Lieut. (j.g.) Raymond Burns, U.S.N.R.,
aged 22, of Coram, wearer of the Distinguished Flying
Cross, the air medal with four clusters and the
Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with two battle stars, is on
terminal leave and preparing to leave the Navy on
December 16. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Burns of
Coram.
Lieutenant Burns has been in the service
for four years, and was commissioned on April 1, 1944. He
was overseas for eleven months and saw action at Okinawa,
Borneo and the occupation of Japan. He was in the
original unit which gave air support at the occupation of
Nagasaki and spent two months in Japan before returning
to the United States.
He was stationed aboard the U.S.S.
Suwanee. Lieutenant Burns is a graduate of Port Jefferson
High school and attended Pratt institute. His brother,
Bartley, is a fire control man, first class, now
stationed at Fort Lauderdale Fla.
Information
supplied by the,
Brookhaven Town Historians office