The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Edmund E. Turner
Rank
Radarman Second Class, U.S. Navy
Date of Death
May 24, 1951
Radarman Second Class Turner served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. On May 24, 1951, he and 134 shipmates were on a fifty foot whale boat enroute from Newport, Rhode Island to their ships after shore leave, when a giant wave overturned the boat. He and another shipmate lost their lives.