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.
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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