WWII Honored Veteran * Big Stone County

Raymond Charles Knight

Entered Service: March 12, 1941

Branch of Service: Navy

Trained at: San Diego, California, March 1941; Portsmouth Training Station, Navy Pier, Chicago May 21, 1942; Little Creek, Virginia; Brooklyn, New York.

Overseas: April 16, 1943. 

Theatre of Operation:  Mediterranean.

Engagements: North Africa, Salerno, Sicily, Italy. 

Rank: Mo. Machinist Mate First Class.

Killed in Italy near Naples, Italy.  Buried in Naples, Italy. 

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