Capt LeRoy Carpenter Cenotaph - 4th Fighter Group
Details:
In the cemetery.
CenotaphA decorative marble headstone.
The cenotaph of Captain Leroy A. Carpenter of the 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, who was shot down near here on April 16, 1945 while flying P-51 Mustang #44-63831 while strafing the Praha-Kbely airdrome in Czechoslovakia. Captain Carpenter was buried in this cemetery until he was repatriated to the Lorraine American Cemetery in France.
Source: Vets.cz
4th Fighter Group Association Website
Monument Text:
The text on the headstone is inscribed in Czech and English and reads:
ZDE ODPOÍVÁ
L.A. CARPENTER
KAPITÁN LETEC SPOJENÝCH STÁT
AMERICKÝCH
PADL V LETECKÉM BOJI DNE 16.4.1945
LETEC PEVEZEN
NA U.S. MILITARY CEMENTERY
STRASBOURG FRANCE
PROCESSING LABORATORY
OH SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVE,
OER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE?
Transaltion:
HERE RESTS
L.A. CARPENTER
CAPTAIN, UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
FELL IN AERIAL COMBAT ON APRIL 16, 1945
AIRMAN TRANSFERRED
TO THE U.S. MILITARY CEMETERY
STRASBOURG, FRANCE
PROCESSING LABORATORY
OH SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVE,
OER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE?
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
4th Fighter Group
8th Air Force
Wars:
WWII