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PFC Edward John Burns Veteran

Birth: 16 May 1919
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death: 18 Feb 1944 (aged 24)
Marshall Islands
Monument: Honolulu Memorial

Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Add to Map
Plot: Courts of the Missing
Memorial ID: 56116821 View Source

Served with the 2nd Separate Tank Company, attached to the 22nd Marines in the invasion of Eniwetok.
PFC Burns drowned when the landing craft transporting his tank to shore capsized 500 yards off the coast of Engebi Island.

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Entered the service from Illinois.

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Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922

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