WW2 Attu Fallen - Ordnance sergeant Richard Carden + Nobel Prize winner

Tec 4 Richard Carden died while the Americans were retaking the Alaskan island of Attu from the Japanese.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13055055/richard-l_-carden
https://www.businessinsider.com/battle-of-attu-and-kiska-in-alaska-us-japanese-troops-in-north-america-2018-5  

Richard L. Carden never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.

He was born on April 1, 1919 in Missouri. His parents Robert and Myrtle were both born in Arkansas. His father worked as a farmer and later as a truck driver. Richard had an older sister, two younger brothers, and two younger sisters. By 1940 Richard had completed a grammar school level of education. He found work as a carpenter.

He volunteered for the US Army and became a tec 4 in the 152nd Ordnance Company. While stationed in Washington state, he married Laverta Haviland. They had one daughter. By June he was stationed at Dutch Harbor, Alaska and was there when the Japanese bombed the city on June 3-4, 1942.

On May 11, 1943, American forces landed on the Alaskan island of Attu to dislodge Japanese troops that had been there since the previous June. Sgt. Carden died on May 18, 1943, suggesting he was on Attu in a supporting role. The fighting on Attu would continue until May 30 and cost 549 American lives. I was not able to determine the cause of death for Sgt. Carden.

His grave is at White Oak Pond Cemetery in Lebanon, Missouri.

Thank you Sgt. Carden for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Richard.

JOSEPH MURRAY
On the same day that Richard Carden was born in Missouri, Joseph Murray was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1940 and then attended Harvard Medical School. After graduating, he was drafted into the Medical Corp of the US Army.

http://bulletin.facs.org/2013/02/joseph-e-murray/

Murray served as a plastic surgeon at Valley Forge General Hospital. He reconstructed hands and faces for the many wounded servicemen.While there he studied the effectiveness of skin graft organ transplants. Building on that he became the first surgeon to perform a kidney transplant in 1954. He shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1990 for his pioneering transplant work. Murray died in 2012.

Last year on this date I profiled medic George McMullin, 32nd Infantry Division. You can read about George here.

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