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Personal info

Full name
CARTER, Emmette Barin
Date of birth
25 May 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
6945635
Rank
First Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
61st Armored Infantry Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 February 1945
Place of death
Near Wincheringen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
C 5 15

Immediate family

Members
Emmette B. Carter (father)
Pearl M. (Roark) Carter (mother)
Lucille Carter (sister)
Winifred G. (Bishop) Carter (wife)

More information

1st Sgt Emmette B. Carter attended Dobyns Bennet High School and was employed at Tennessee Eastman Corporation.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States in Roanoke, Virginia on 27 April 1942. He was sent overseas in August 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire to the 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 / Virginia Marriage Records, www.findagrave.com - Allen D. Jackson, www.10tharmored.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, Kingsport News - 2 March 1967