Decorations register · Notice Nearby
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Edward A. Carter Jr.
1916–1963
Staff Sergeant (later Sergeant First Class)
Infantry Company Number 1 (Provisional), Seventh Army; attached to 56th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th Armored Division (near Speyer, Germany, 23 March 1945)
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named in VA #VeteranOfTheDay (4 Oct 2022) for wounds sustained near Speyer, Germany, 23 March 1945. Do not invent an oak-leaf count from secondary tallies on this page.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named as Bronze Star in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay profile. Do not invent a Combat “V” without a matching official device list on this page.
Public sources
Edward A. Carter Jr.’s Purple Heart and Bronze Star are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his service. The same VA account places those decorations beside the Distinguished Service Cross he received in 1945 and the Medal of Honor presented to his son at the White House on January 13, 1997. This decorations page records the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal from that VA list. It will not invent a Silver Star the VA page does not name, and it will not place a Medal of Honor or Distinguished Service Cross chip on this awards row — same Murphy rule as the live register.
Near Speyer, Germany, on March 23, 1945, Carter advanced alone across open ground under fire after members of his patrol were killed or wounded, took further wounds, and later returned with prisoners whose information aided the advance. That action is the public Medal of Honor record. The Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal are the published wartime decoration names on the VA profile. They are not the same sentence.
He is not yet on a war-roll essay. Service in three nations before the U.S. Army, and later reinterment at Arlington National Cemetery, are public history. They are not printed here as medals.
This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.
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