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Personal info

Full name
CARPENTER, Douglas Clay
Date of birth
17 January 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee
Hometown
Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
O1017043
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Tank Commander
Unit
C Company,
40th Tank Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
14 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Malancourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
James B. Carpenter (father)
Jessie H. (Furcron) Carpenter (mother)
Milton C. Carpenter (brother)
Annie L. Carpenter (sister)
Nona M. Carpenter (sister)
Raymond B. Carpenter (brother)
Buford L. Carpenter (brother)
Dorothy L. Carpenter (sister)
Bertha M. Carpenter (sister)
Lester G. Carpenter (brother)

More information

2nd Lt Douglas C. Carpenter was a bookkeeper.

He enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 10 March 1942.

He is remembered at the Bethlehem Cemetery in Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.7tharmddiv.org

Photo source:
Peter Schouteten, Commercial Appeal - 11 April 1943