Carter, Hayden Belois – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, Fireman First Class Hayden Belois Carter.

Unit/Placed in, USS Ingraham (DD-444) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Hayden is born on 17 April 1921 in Cabarrus, North Carolina.

Father, Jonas Ephraim Carter.

Mother, Esther Iola (Troutman) Carter.

Sister(s), Myrtle Lea, Earnie Bell, Esther Marie, Faye Catherine, Thelma Haywood, Mary Edith, Elma Beatrice and Dorcus Neavonne Carter.

Brother(s), Albert Luther, Wilbur, John Ephraim and Pleas Wilson Carter.

Hayden enlisted the service in North Carolina with service number # 2628526.

Hayden was KIA/MIA when the USS Ingraham was guarding the Convoy for enemy submarine and collided with the oil tanker Chemung in heavy fog off the coast of Nova Scotia on 22 August 1942, he is honored with a Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Hayden is buried/mentioned at East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.

Walls of the missing.

Hayden also has a Memorial Grave at Phaniels Baptist Church Cemetery,

Rockwell, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/us_navy_pages/destroyers/pages/alpha_pages/i/uss_ingraham_dd444_roll_of_honor.htm

https://www.navsource.org/archives/05/444.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCC4-PW7

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/