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| Sgt. Robert Carter, with wife "Peggy", was a B-17 top turret gunner. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82383915/robert-taylor-carter https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/640327/person/24073946279/media/078fc37f-92e2-44ef-afc9-404aaf4efbe7?_phsrc=Jqm4&_phstart=successSource |
Robert Taylor Carter never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.
He was born on June 18, 1919 in Folsom, Oklahoma. His parents William and Cordelia were both born in Tennessee. Willam, old enough to be a Civil War veteran, died in 1919 at age 76, leaving his 42 year old widow and infant son. Cordelia worked as a farmer. Robert had older half-siblings. By 1940 he had completed four years of high school and was working as a clerk while living with one of his older half-brothers.
He volunteered for the Army Air Corps on June 10, 1941. He married Arthurine Eva "Peggy" Flowers in 1942. He was trained as a top turret gunner and became a staff sergeant in the 563rd Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group which was equipped with B-17 Flying Fortresses.
On March 8, 1944 Sgt. Carter was aboard the B-17 Screamin' Red Ass on a bombing mission to Berlin. It was shot down by an ME-109 and crashed west of Magdeburg, Germany.
His grave is at Hillside Cemetery in Purcell, Oklahoma. His widow remarried and died in 2010.
Last year on this date I profiled B-25 co-pilot Joseph Metzger. You can read about Joseph here.
On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!
I created this video to explain why I started this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY.
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