Carter, Iverson Abbitt

Rank and Name, Gunners Mate Third Class Iverson Abbitt Carter.

Unit/Placed in, USS Newcomb Destroyer (DD-586), United States Navy.

Iverson is born on 12 November 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mother, Esther T. Carter.

Spouse, Andrea Lois (Andrews) Carter .

Iverson enlisted the service in Connecticut with service number # 8072911.

Iverson was KIA/MIA when the USS Newcomb and USS Leutze were operating together off Okinawa’s west coast when they were attacked by several Kamikaze’s on 6 April 1945, he is honored with a Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Iverson is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to, https://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ussnewcomb/

http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/DD586/DD586ForwardRepair.html

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G4Y3-VNQ

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.