Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Burton Lowell Carter.
Unit/Placed in, USS Arizona (BB-39) Battleship, United States Navy.
Burton is born approx. on 16 Aug. 1923 in Long Beach, California.
Father, Fred Eugene Carter.
Mother, Rosadele (McClure) Carter.
Brother(s), Stanton Alfred and Donald Merrill Carter.
Burton enlisted the service in California with service number # 3813876.
Burton was KIA when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor without the declaration of war on 7 Dec. 1941, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Burton is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
Burton is also mentioned at USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, VS.
Thanks to, http://genealogytrails.com/ww2/PearlHarborCasualties03.html
https://www.history.com/news/5-facts-about-pearl-harbor-and-the-uss-arizona
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHFW-7F6
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
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
