Carter, Fred Harding – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, Yeoman Third Class Fred Harding Carter.

Unit/Placed in, USS Quincy (CA-39) Cruiser, United States Navy.

Fred is born on 1922 in New Brunswick, Canada.

Father, James Edgar Carter.

Mother, Janet Matilda (McKinley) Carter.

Sister(s), Alice Pauline and Bessie Myrtle Carter.

Brother(s), Charles Paul and James Kidd Sr. Carter.

Fred enlisted the service in Massachusetts with service number # 2018013.

Fred was KIA/MIA when the USS Quincy sunk in Battle of Savo Island on 9 Augustus 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island, was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces. The battle took place on August 8â€“9, 1942 and was the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign. The battle has often been cited as the worst defeat in a fair fight in the history of the United States Navy. The battle was the first of five costly, large scale sea and air-sea actions fought in support of the ground battles on Guadalcanal.

The USS Quincy and USS Vincennes was sunk, with over 1000 men killed or lost at sea. The Japanese suffered only light damage to ships, and a little more than 100 casualties.

Fred is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Walls of the missing.

Fred also has a Memorial Grave at St. David’s Presbyterian Cemetery

Kirkland, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada

Thanks to, https://www.honorstates.org/

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LKDL-WDY

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org