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Personal info

Full name
PALMER, Carter
Date of birth
6 June 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Providence County, Rhode Island
Hometown
Providence County, Rhode Island

Military service

Service number
11096869
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 March 1945
Place of death
Aegidienberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 5 19

Immediate family

Members
Edward C. Palmer (father)
Louise K. (Robinson) Palmer (mother)
Natalie P. (Frost) Palmer (sister)

More information

Cpl Carter Palmer graduated from Yale University in 1942 and was employed at Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company's apprentice school in Providence.

He volunteered for the US Army in Providence, Rhode Island on 17 September 1942. He was selected for Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.) and attended University of Alabama and Georgetown University. He was transferred to the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, DC on 18 October 1943. On 6 October 1944 he was transferred to the Infantry and was sent overseas as a replacement in February, 1945.

Cpl Palmer was instantly killed when hit by shrapnel from an enemy shell.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, John Gerlosky, Bulletin of Yale University Obituary Record of Graduates, www.archives.gov

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Des Philippet, Herman Wolters