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Personal info

Full name
CARSON, Raymond Louis
Date of birth
3 November 1912
Age
31
Place of birth
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
Hometown
Wayne County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36176352
Rank
Private
Function
Truck Driver, Light
Unit
B Company,
326th Airborne Engineer Battalion,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 September 1944
Place of death
Oisterwijk, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
M 19 1

Immediate family

Members
Louis Carson (father)
Anne (Newport) Carson (mother)
Mary Carson (sister)
Jean Carson (sister)
William Carson (brother)
Louise Carson (sister)
Frances Carson (sister)
Leo Carson (brother)
Patricia Carson (sister)
Harriet Carson (sister)
John A. Carson (brother)
Mildred L. Carson (sister)
Raymond H. Carson (son)

More information

Pvt Raymond L. Carson was aboard a Waco Glider loaded with jeeps. Approaching the landing zone enemy ground fire shot off the left wing and it crashed.

The casualties were initially buried on the cemetery of the St. Petrus Banden in Oisterwijk.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, WWIIMemorial.com, Fold3.com,, Headstone Inscription and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942–1949; 1920/1940 US Census Oisterwijk-marketgarden.com, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/326/326_honor.html, WWII Draft Cards

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Raymond H. Carson