Carl L. Carpenter was born on September 11, 1914. He served in the 130th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion, 8th Armored Division as a Technician 5th Grade during World War II. On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. T5 Carpenter is now buried in the Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery, Dillard, Rabun County, Georgia, USA.