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Personal info

Full name
LADNER, Carman Spencer
Date of birth
15 May 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
West Point, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Hometown
Kennebec County, Maine

Military service

Service number
31217634
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
24 September 1944
Place of death
Van der Pol farm
Eerde (Gem. Veghel), The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
John N. Ladner (father)
Ida M. (Wood) Ladner (mother)
Annie L. Ladner (sister)
Edmund Ladner (brother)
Miriam Ladner (sister)
Charles Ladner (brother)
John Ladner (brother)
Handford Ladner (brother)
Martha Ladner (sister)
Delma Ladner (sister)
Lorne Ladner (brother)

More information

Carman S. Ladner enlisted on 11 December 1942 in Portland, Maine.

He was not yet a citizen of the US.

He was killed by the explosion of an ammunition truck at the farm of the Van der Pol family. Cpl Ladner was on top of the fully exposed truck passing ammunition down to the men when the vehicle was hit by a shell from a German tank on the opposite side of the railroad track, causing the ammunition to explode.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.wwiimemorial.com,
www.archives.gov, Marc van Berkmortel, Lewiston Daily Sun - January 9 1945, www.ancestry.com - United States Social Security Death Index; United States Census / United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, http://www.screamingeagles.nl/elaine.htm

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, http://www.screamingeagles.nl/elaine.htm