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Personal info

Full name
CARPENTER, Harmon Austin
Date of birth
December 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Arkansas
Hometown
Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas

Military service

Service number
38668757
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 December 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 20 100

Immediate family

Members
Isaac H. Carpenter (father)
Mary G. (Harris) Carpenter (mother)
Mary A. Carpenter (sister)
Evelyn Capenter (wife)

More information

Pfc Harmon A. Carpenter enlisted in Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas on 16 May 1944.

He attended Hot Spring schools and Washington University and was employed by the REA in Montana before entering service.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Goodman & Allied Families / 1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, Newspaper article
Photo source: -, New Mexico State Library, Santa Fe