Korea
James Earl Carter
Rate / Rank
Corporal
Birthdate
January 1 1929
Date of Death
November 28 1950
Branch
US Army
Active Duty Service
- February 13 1951
Conflicts & Campaigns
- Korea
Significant Duty Stations
- Battery A, 159th Field Artillery Battalion, 25th Infantry Division
Decorations & Citations
- Prisoner of War Medal (Taken Prisoner November 28, 1950) POW Camp; Ch'ang-Song.
- Korean Service Medal; United Nations Service Medal; National Defense Medal
- Korean Presidential Unit Citation Medal; Republic of Korea War Service Medal
Notes
US Army service number 14-293-447. Private First Class, posthumous promoted to rank of corporal. Attended; Washington Consolidated High School, Cairo, Georgia. PFC Carter was taken prisoner while fighting the enemy in North Korea, November 28, 1950 and died while a prisoner on February 13, 1951. His remains were not recovered. Memorialized; Courts of the Missing, 4 Honolulu Memorial, National Memorial of Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii USA.