Raymond (DE-341) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort. She was named for Lieutenant Reginald Marbury Raymond, killed by gunfire aboard Scorpion on 30 April 1943. Consolidated Steel at Orange laid her down on 3 November 1943, launched her on 8 January 1944, and commissioned her on 15 April 1944 under Lieutenant Commander Aaron F. Beyer Jr., USNR. Shakedown was off Bermuda. She then trained out of Norfolk, transited the Panama Canal in July, and joined the Pacific Fleet in time for Morotai and the Leyte covering force. The portrait is a 1950s underway photograph. Hull 341 is still on the bow. It is the same ship that was off Samar.
On 25 October 1944 she was in Taffy 3's screen with Dennis, John C. Butler, and Samuel B. Roberts. She laid smoke, then left the port side of the carrier formation and launched three torpedoes at the heavy cruiser Haguro. They missed. Haguro answered with about fifteen 8-inch salvos from very close range. Raymond was not hit. She turned back toward the carriers and, from about 0814, engaged Chikuma and Tone with 5-inch fire. At 0840 she was with Samuel B. Roberts against the cruiser line at about 5,900 yards. No ship is credited to her torpedo spread. She and John C. Butler were the only Taffy 3 warships to come out of the surface action undamaged. She also picked up St. Lo survivors. The unit received the Presidential Unit Citation.
She finished the war on escort and picket duty and is credited with five enemy planes by 15 August 1945. She served in Japanese waters from 2 to 6 September, then went home and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She was decommissioned at San Diego on 24 January 1947. Recommissioned on 27 April 1951 for Atlantic escort duty out of Newport, she decommissioned on 22 September 1958, served as a Naval Reserve training ship, went out of service on 31 May 1960, was stricken on 1 July 1972, and was sunk as a target by aircraft from Forrestal off northeast Florida on 22 January 1974. Five battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.