Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade William Henry Burnside Jr.
Unit/Placed in, , USS Kete (SS-369) Submarine, United States Naval Reserve.
William is born approx. on 11 Sep. 1923 in Georgia.
Father, William Henry Burnside.
Mother, Bessie Burnside.
William enlisted the service in Georgia with service number # 0-313079.
William was KIA cause Unknown, on March 20, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
William is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
William also has a Memorial Grave at Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA.
Thanks to, http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/burnside-w-h.htm
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and Europe 1940-1945 on Facebook.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
