HAROLD C. CARTER Ball Turret Gunner Story from 'Miss Fortune's Last Mission'
"Moving around was no oddity for American families during the 1920s and 1930s, especially as the employment rigors of the Great Depression took hold. For Harold's parents, Cleburne and Rheathelma Carter, however, holding a job was less effort than following one around. Cleburne worked to build bridges all over llinois, taking his family with him each time he got a new assign- ment. Harold Cleburne Carter was born in 1922, finally settling in the small town of Carlinville, Illinois by 1940.
Like most of Miss Fortune's crew, Harold had a host of siblings: four brothers and two sisters. They all called him Cleburne, his middle name given in honor of his father. The young man finished high school and took a waiter's job in a local restaurant before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in October 1942.
He was assigned to Goddard's crew before leaving the States, then enjoyed a brief, pub-filled stopover in Ireland on the way to combat in North Africa with Ray Noury, my father, Roy Hughes, Mel Adams and Wayne Nelson. A photo captures the visit, the six uniformed guys wearing expressions ranging from muted smiles to emotionless at a dark table. In battle shortly thereafter, Ray Noury decided that Harold "always put his heart and soul into everything he did."
HAROLD CARTER Ball Turret Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
The crew's sacrifice for freedom is told in "Miss Fortune's Last Mission" They were interred together on June 16, 1950, Jefferson Barracks St. Louis,MO... Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F. Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W Houser, Engineer
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
"Moving around was no oddity for American families during the 1920s and 1930s, especially as the employment rigors of the Great Depression took hold. For Harold's parents, Cleburne and Rheathelma Carter, however, holding a job was less effort than following one around. Cleburne worked to build bridges all over llinois, taking his family with him each time he got a new assign- ment. Harold Cleburne Carter was born in 1922, finally settling in the small town of Carlinville, Illinois by 1940.
Like most of Miss Fortune's crew, Harold had a host of siblings: four brothers and two sisters. They all called him Cleburne, his middle name given in honor of his father. The young man finished high school and took a waiter's job in a local restaurant before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in October 1942.
He was assigned to Goddard's crew before leaving the States, then enjoyed a brief, pub-filled stopover in Ireland on the way to combat in North Africa with Ray Noury, my father, Roy Hughes, Mel Adams and Wayne Nelson. A photo captures the visit, the six uniformed guys wearing expressions ranging from muted smiles to emotionless at a dark table. In battle shortly thereafter, Ray Noury decided that Harold "always put his heart and soul into everything he did."
HAROLD CARTER Ball Turret Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
The crew's sacrifice for freedom is told in "Miss Fortune's Last Mission" They were interred together on June 16, 1950, Jefferson Barracks St. Louis,MO... Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F. Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W Houser, Engineer
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
HAROLD C. CARTER Ball Turret Gunner Story from 'Miss Fortune's Last Mission'
"Moving around was no oddity for American families during the 1920s and 1930s, especially as the employment rigors of the Great Depression took hold. For Harold's parents, Cleburne and Rheathelma Carter, however, holding a job was less effort than following one around. Cleburne worked to build bridges all over llinois, taking his family with him each time he got a new assign- ment. Harold Cleburne Carter was born in 1922, finally settling in the small town of Carlinville, Illinois by 1940.
Like most of Miss Fortune's crew, Harold had a host of siblings: four brothers and two sisters. They all called him Cleburne, his middle name given in honor of his father. The young man finished high school and took a waiter's job in a local restaurant before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in October 1942.
He was assigned to Goddard's crew before leaving the States, then enjoyed a brief, pub-filled stopover in Ireland on the way to combat in North Africa with Ray Noury, my father, Roy Hughes, Mel Adams and Wayne Nelson. A photo captures the visit, the six uniformed guys wearing expressions ranging from muted smiles to emotionless at a dark table. In battle shortly thereafter, Ray Noury decided that Harold "always put his heart and soul into everything he did."
HAROLD CARTER Ball Turret Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
The crew's sacrifice for freedom is told in "Miss Fortune's Last Mission" They were interred together on June 16, 1950, Jefferson Barracks St. Louis,MO... Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F. Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W Houser, Engineer
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
"Moving around was no oddity for American families during the 1920s and 1930s, especially as the employment rigors of the Great Depression took hold. For Harold's parents, Cleburne and Rheathelma Carter, however, holding a job was less effort than following one around. Cleburne worked to build bridges all over llinois, taking his family with him each time he got a new assign- ment. Harold Cleburne Carter was born in 1922, finally settling in the small town of Carlinville, Illinois by 1940.
Like most of Miss Fortune's crew, Harold had a host of siblings: four brothers and two sisters. They all called him Cleburne, his middle name given in honor of his father. The young man finished high school and took a waiter's job in a local restaurant before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in October 1942.
He was assigned to Goddard's crew before leaving the States, then enjoyed a brief, pub-filled stopover in Ireland on the way to combat in North Africa with Ray Noury, my father, Roy Hughes, Mel Adams and Wayne Nelson. A photo captures the visit, the six uniformed guys wearing expressions ranging from muted smiles to emotionless at a dark table. In battle shortly thereafter, Ray Noury decided that Harold "always put his heart and soul into everything he did."
HAROLD CARTER Ball Turret Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
The crew's sacrifice for freedom is told in "Miss Fortune's Last Mission" They were interred together on June 16, 1950, Jefferson Barracks St. Louis,MO... Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F. Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W Houser, Engineer
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
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