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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Raymond Burns.

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THOMAS RAYMOND BURNS

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 10, 1948 – May 26, 1967

Service record

Thomas Raymond Burns, of Fremont, Wisconsin, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 26, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 110

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
February 10, 1948
Home of record
Fremont, Wisconsin (Waupaca County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1967; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 110

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.