TSGT Claude Emerson Carpenter

TSGT Claude Emerson Carpenter

Birth
Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska, USA
Death 8 Jul 1945 (aged 29)
Japan
Burial Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot Sec. 15
Memorial ID 21147267 · View Source
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Claude married Lorraine Olise Easton on 12 Dec 1939 in Anderson, Anderson, South Carolina where he had been training at the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe. VA. They moved to the Philippine Islands and he re-enlisted in the US Army there on 25 Jul 1941.

After the Japanese commenced their war against the United States on 7/8 December 1941, Lorraine was safely evacuated to the United States. Technical Sergeant Claude Carpenter stayed to fight. He was reported captured on 7 May 1942 after the fall of Bataan.

He survived the Bataan death march and was later shipped to Japan as slave labor. He died at Camp Moji (Hospital) Fukuoka #4 (same as 775) Kyushu Island 34-131 as a Prisoner of War on 8 Jul 1945. His body was cremated and intermingled with other POW remains.

An urn with commingled POW cremains resides at the "Yokohama Cremation Memorial" in Yokohama, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan (Honshu Island). His name is on Panel 7. See:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14514361

His parents asked for and received a Memorial Stone from the US Army and placed it in the Fairview Cemetery in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska where they are buried.
His wife, also placed a memorial stone where she is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Seneca, Oconee County, South Carolina. See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120220773/

Please see what appears to be duplicate sibling entries on this memorial with his name. The links will take you to the two memorials cited above.
These are not duplicate memorials because each one tells a slightly different story to honor him, his wife and his parents as they honored him for his service to his Country.



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In Memory of
Claude E. Carpenter
Nebraska
T SGT Coast Arty Corps
World War II
Sept 26 1915 July 8 1945

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  • Maintained by: jrcrin001
  • Originally Created by: The Seeker
  • Added: 25 Aug 2007
  • Find A Grave Memorial 21147267
  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), memorial page for TSGT Claude Emerson Carpenter (26 Sep 1915–8 Jul 1945), Find A Grave Memorial no. 21147267, citing Fairview Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA ; Maintained by jrcrin001 (contributor 48357735) .