Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....CARTER, LT. H.B. HAROLD 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 April 27, 2011, 12:29 pm CORDELE DISPATCH FIRST LIEUTANT HAROLD B. CARTER, OF CORDELE, WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN HOLLAND, OCT. 6, THE WAR DEPARTMENT HAS NOTIFIED HIS PARENTS,MR. AND MRS. M.F.CARTER. LT. CARTER WAS BORN JULY 8,1921IN CORDELE,AND SPENT HIS CHILDHOOD AND BOYHOOD DAYS HERE. FOLLOWING HIS GRADUATION FROM CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL HE ATTENDED UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA WHERE HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING STUDENT,GRADUATING IN 1942.UPON HIS GRADUATION HE VOLUNTEERED IN THE U.S. CAVALARY, AND WAS STATIONED AT FORT RILEY,KANSAS. LATER GOING TO CAMP LIVINGSTON,LA. HE WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE PARACHUTE INFANTRY SCHOOL AT FT. BENNING,GA. WHERE HE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 506TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY FROM WHICH HE GRADUATED IN 1943 AND RECEIVED HIS WINGS .FROM THERE HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO FT. BRAGG,N.C.,LATER GOING TO FT. MEADE ,MARYLAND , PORT OF EMBARKATION FROM WHERE HE SAILED FOR OVERSEES ,ARRIVING IN ENGLAND JAN.29 OF THIS YEAR. HE PARTICIPATED IN THE INVASION OF FRANCE, ARRIVIND THERE ON D-DAY, LATER JOINING THE INVASION OF HOLLAND. NEWS OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF THIS PROMISING YOUNG MAN HAS BROUGHT SORROW TO COUNTLESS FRIENDS WHOSE SYMPATHY GOES OUT THE BEREAVED ONES. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS, HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO BROTHERS ,M.F.CARTER JR.STATIONED SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND;CADET JOHN MARSHALL CARTER, STUDENT AT NORTH GEORGIA COLLEGE, DAHLONEGA,GA.; ONE SISTER MRS. R.M.CHANDLER OF ROCKY MOUNT N.C. SEVERAL UNCLES AND AUNTS ALSO SURVIVE, ONE AMONG IS MISS THEO POOLE OF CORDELE. Additional Comments: GEORGE T. BUD SHEPPARD WAS THE LAST PARATROOPER TO SPEAK TO HIM ,BEFORE HIS DEATH File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/obits/c/carter13292ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb