Polk County

 
Pfc. Robert Eugene Carpenter

 

 

 

Iowans Arriving

SEATTLE, WASH.—The following Des Moines men are scheduled to arrive here aboard the Marshall Friday:
T/Sgt. Darwin G. Tucker, 745 Thirty-ninth st;
Pfc. Robert E. Carpenter, 2900 Walker st.

Source:  Des Moines Tribune,  Thursday, April 11, 1946

Robert Eugene Carpenter was born Aug. 3, 1926 to Clifford Francis and Mary Mildred Allen Carpenter. He died Dec. 20, 1991 and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Des Moines, IA.

Pvt. Carpenter served in World War II with the U.S. Army.

Enlisted: September 18, 1944
Discharged: April 20, 1946

Source: ancestry.com