STAFF SERGEANT EDWARD A CARTER JR.

Staff Sergeant Edward A Carter Jr.

Staff Sergeant Edward A Carter Jr.

Staff sergeant Edward A. Carter, Jr. who had entered the army from los Angeles, California, had little time to adjust to his role as a volunteer infantryman assigned to the seventh Army's Infantry Company No.1 (provincial). Less than Two Weeks after the Company had been organized, one of its detachments, including Carter, was in combat with the 12th Armored Division's 56th Armored Infantry Battalion, and Staff Sergeant Carter had entered a Distinguished Service cross for extraordinary heroism (Elder, 2003).

Edward Cater had shown extraordinary braver, and he ...