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Personal info

Full name
CARDER, Henry Charles
Date of birth
5 December 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Moorewood, Custer County, Oklahoma
Hometown
Leedey, Dewey County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
38697087
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 March 1945
Place of death
Mannheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 40 33

Immediate family

Members
Emitt H. Carder (father)
Rosa N. (Bashaw) Carder (mother)
Elsie M. Carder (sister)
Lee W. Carder (brother)
Donald Carder (brother)
Doris L. Carder (sister)
Sarah N. Carder (sister)
Glena F. Carder (sister)
Annie B. Carder (wife)

More information

Pfc Henry C. Carder attended high school for two years and was a farmer before he enlisted in College Station, Texas on 20 April 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - James Durham, www.newspapers.com - The Chickasha Daily Express 25 April 1945
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