Carter, Herbert Ellwood

Rank and Name, Radio Technician Third Class Herbert Ellwood Carter.

Unit/Placed in, USS Twigs (DD-591) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Herbert is born on 22 Juli 1923 in Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

Mother, Maude A. Kavanagh.

Herbert enlisted the service in San Bernadino, California on 30 June 1942 with service number # 5638968.

Herbert was KIA/MIA when the USS twigs (DD-591) was on radar/picket duty off the coast of Okinawa when it was hit by a torpedo and suicide crash by Japanese Kamikaze plane on 16 June 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Herbert is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A. Courts of the missing.

His Grave cenotaph in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1945/battle-of-okinawa/twiggs-okinawa.html

https://www.navsource.org/archives/05/591.htm

https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ROHPage&personType=Fallen

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.