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Carroli, as he was known to his many friends, enlisted on 6 April 1944 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and after completing seventeen weeks basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, the following August, he spent ten days with his family en route to Fort Mead, Maryland for reassignment, which was immediate overseas duty.

He was assigned to Co. B, 110th Infantry, 28th Division of the First Army, which suffered great losses in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest.

Carroll lived in Florence for several years where he made a wide circle of friends. Born and raised in het Sardis community, he received his education there being graduated from the Sardis High School. He moved to Florence and worked for several years with the Fred Germany Company. Later he accepted a position with the Heinz products company which took him to Georgia from where he was transferred to Columbia. About then years ago he moved to Hartsville to make his home. Langston was the succesful owner of an automobile business in Hartsville where he held the agency for the Studebaker and Oldsmobile cars.
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Extract from the Florence Morning News of March 13, 1946: Mrs Langston has received information the following from the War Department concerning her husband, reporting him dead instead of presumed dead. "An official report had been received which states that your husband, the late Private Carroll E. Langston was killed in action on November 14, 1944 in the Forest of Hurtgen in Germany. This change in status from presented dead to killed in action was based on burial information received from the Commanding General European Theater. The official report of burial discloses that the remains of your husband were recovered from the Forest of Hurtgen in Germany by an American Graves Registration Unit, and were moved to the United States Military Cemetery Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, were burial was made in Plot X, Row 10, Grave 231. The burial report also states that your husband's body was identified by his identification tags. At the time of internment one identification was buried with the body, and the other was attached to the grave marker for future identification. At a later date, this office will, without any action on your part, provide you with full information and .. your detailed desires".