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Home Town Jackson, MI
Last Address Warwick, Rhode Island
Date of Passing Apr 16, 2012
Location of Interment Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery - Exeter, Rhode Island
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HM 1/c Corydon M. Loomis, USN (ret.)
Corydon M. Loomis, 81, a retired Corpsman in the US Navy of 20 years passed away Monday, April 16, 2012 with his family by his side at Kent Hospital.
Mr. Loomis was a proud veteran of the US Navy, enlisting on August 21, 1947, just 17 days after his 17th birthday. He served during the Korean and Vietnam Wars aboard many ships including aircraft carriers USS Coral Sea and USS Essex as well as submarines and sub-tenders - USS Sablefish (where he was nicknamed "Doc"), USS Blenny, USS Conger, USS Sarda, the nuclear-powered USS Triton (credited with the first submerged circumnavigation of the earth in Operation Sandblast), atomic-powered USS Seawolf, USS Sea Owl, USS Shark, USS Canopus, and USS Fulton.
During his service, Mr. Loomis had Secret Clearance and earned five (5) Good Conduct awards, a National Defense medal, and the Navy's "Europe" Occupation Service Clasp. He retired in 1968 as a Hospital Medic, Petty Officer First Class (HM1) after 20 years of service. After retiring from the US Navy, Corydon worked for 18 years at Ciba-Geigy and 5 years at the US Postal Service.
Burial with military honors was in the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery, Exeter.
Korean War/Third Korean Winter (1952-53)
From Month/Year
December / 1952
To Month/Year
April / 1953
Description Third Korean Winter, 1 December 1952 - 30 April 1953. Meanwhile the armistice talks had stalled. Discord over several issues, but principally the exchange of prisoners of war, had prevented any agreement in the latter part of 1951. This disagreement was heightened in January 1952. The U.N. delegates proposed to give captives a choice of repatriation, so that those who did not wish to return to Communist control could be repatriated elsewhere. The enemy delegates protested vigorously, insisting that all captives held by the Eighth Army be returned to their side. When the enemy failed to respond to U.N. efforts to settle the question, the U.N. delegation on 7 October called an indefinite recess in the armistice negotiations. Both military operations and armistice talks remained stalemated and, as the year 1952 ended, peace prospects seemed as remote as at its beginning.
