World War II
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Fallen

County:
Sheridan

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private First Class

Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968

Major Battle/Theatre:
Asiatic Pacific Theater

Circumstances:

Killed in action in Myitkyina, Burma

Biography:

When Raymond Walter Winter was born on 13 April 1923, in North Dakota, United States, his father, Otto Winter, was 30 and his mother, Martha Graumann, was 28. He lived in Rusland Township, Wells, North Dakota, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 28 July 1944, in Myanmar, at the age of 21, and was buried in National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.