CENSUS:
1880 United States Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
E. CARPENTER Self M Male W 26 NY Farmer NY NY
Ada CARPENTER Wife M Female W 22 NY Keeping House NY NY
Jesse A. CARPENTER Dau S Female W 1 NY NY NY
George LEWIS BroL S Male W 40 NY Farm Laborer NY NY
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Source Information:
Census Place Newfield, Tompkins, New York
Family History Library Film 1254938
NA Film Number T9-0938
Page Number 322B
CENSUS: 1850 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1860 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1865 New York State Census - not with parents
CENSUS: 1870 US Census
CENSUS: 1880 US Census
CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burnedCENSUS: 1900 US Census
CENSUS: 1910 US Census
CENSUS: 1920 US Census
CENSUS: 1850 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1860 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1865 New York State Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1870 US Census - with parentsCENSUS: 1880 US Census
Name: Herman Carpenter
Age: 32
Birth Date: Abt 1848
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1880: Big Flats, Chemung, New York, USA
Dwelling Number: 49
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's Name: Martha J. Carpenter
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Occupation: Farmer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Herman Carpenter 32
Martha J. Carpenter 30
Floyd Carpenter 2
Source Citation
Year: 1880; Census Place: Big Flats, Chemung, New York; Roll: 816; Page: 174A; Enumeration District: 065
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.CENSUS: 1890 US Census - burned
CENSUS: 1892 New York State Census
Name: Herman Carpenter
Birth Year: abt 1846
Birth Place: United States
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Citizenship: Citizen
Residence Place: Big Flats, Chemung
Election District: 01
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: 1892 New York State Census. New York State Education Department, Office of Cultural Education. New York State Library, Albany, NY.CENSUS: 1900 US Census
Name: Herman Carpenter
Age: 52
Birth Date: Sep 1847
Birthplace: New York, USA
Home in 1900: Elmira Ward 2, Chemung, New York
Ward of City: 2
Street: Baldwin Street
House Number: To 166
Sheet Number: 4
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 66
Family Number: 86
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Marital status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: New York, USA
Mother's Birthplace: New York, USA
Occupation: Tobaco Worker
Months Not Employed: 0
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Manley Brink 41
Jane Brink 36
Elizabeth Brink 14
Adalaid Brink 8
Hannah Polley 72
George Draper 36
William King 60
Hattie Clark 23
May Rhodes 20
Isaac H Cunningham 52
Herman Carpenter 52
William J Clark 40
Otto Rhodes 30
William S Clark 45
John Morley 48
Patrick Sheedy 22
Frank Eckels 16
William Moore 26
Emil Stern 32
Source Citation
Year: 1900; Census Place: Elmira Ward 2, Chemung, New York; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0009; FHL microfilm: 1241016
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.CENSUS: 1910 US Census
CENSUS: 1915 New York State Census
Name: Herman Carpenter
Birth Year: abt 1850
Birth Place: United States
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Big Flats, Chemung
Relationship: Servant
Color or Race: White
Number of years in US: 65
Assembly District: 01
Line Number: 23
Page number: 04
Household Members Age Relationship
Herman Carpenter 65 Servant
Harriet Carpenter 42 Head
Source Citation
New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 01; Assembly District: 01; City: Big Flats; County: Chemung; Page: 04
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: State population census schedules, 1915. New York State Archives, Albany, New York.CENSUS: 1920 US Census
Name: Herman S Carpenter
Age: 72
Birth Year: abt 1848
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Big Flats, Chemung, New York
Street: Carpenter Road
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Servant
Industry: Private Family
Employment Field: Wage or Salary
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members Age Relationship
Herman S Carpenter 72 Servant
Harriet M Carpenter 47 Head <---- Harriet M Carpenter b abt 1873 M. Harry H. Taylor on 28 Feb 1927.
Source Citation
Year: 1920; Census Place: Big Flats, Chemung, New York; Roll: T625_1092; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 3
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.CENSUS: 1930 US Census
OBIT: image
Name: Herman S. Carpenter
Gender: Male
Death Age: 84
Birth Date: abt 1848
Residence Place: Big Flats
Death Date: Abt 1932
Obituary Date: 14 Jun 1932
Obituary Place: Elmira, New York, United States of America
Child: Floyd
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Source Citation
Star-Gazette; Publication Date: 14 Jun 1932; Publication Place: Elmira, New York, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/276599472/?article=1ad807fe-b24f-4693-843d-56e498d240ea&focus=0.63217455,0.5037374,0.74922895,0.5823481&xid=3355
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019.
Original data: See newspaper information provided with each entry.
MARRIAGE: 1902 - image
Name: Floyd J. Carpenter
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 13 Sep 1902
Marriage Place: Hornellsville, New York, USA
Spouse: Cora Polly Mason
Certificate Number: 17574
Records Sharing Certificate Number:
Name
Floyd J. Carpenter
Cora Polly Mason
Source Citation
New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Marriage Index
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.
Original data: New York State Marriage Index, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY.DRAFT: WWI - 1917 - image
Name: Floyd J Carpenter
Race: White
Birth Date: 9 Sep 1877
Residence Date: 1917-1918
Street Address: 191 Lincoln
Residence Place: Steuben County, New York, USA
Draft Board: 2
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Child: Edward R Carpenter
Source Citation
Registration State: New York; Registration County: Steuben County
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.DEATH:
Name: Floyd J Carpenter
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Age: 66
Birth Date: 9 Sep 1877
Birth Place: New York, Big Flats
Residence Street Address: 46 1/2 Jane Street
Residence Place: New York
Death Date: 11 Aug 1944
Hospital: Veterans Administration
Death Place: New York City, Bronx, New York, USA
Cause of Death: Carcinoma, Bronchogenic, Apex, Right Upper Lobe
Burial Date: 12 Aug 1944
Burial Place: Hornell NY
Occupation: Laborer
Father's Birth Place: New York
Mother's Birth Place: New York
Father: Herman Carpenter
Mother: Martha Carpenter
Spouse: Cora Carpenter
Informant: Information Obtained from Records of Deceased
Executor: Manager
Certificate Number: 8010
Source Citation
New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1944
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT. USA: 2020.
Original data: New York City Department of Records & Information Services. New York City Death
CENSUS: 1900 US Census
Name: Cora P Mason
[Cora P Mann]
Age: 19
Birth Date: Aug 1880
Birthplace: New York, USA
Home in 1900: Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania
House Number: 38
Sheet Number: 2
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 37
Family Number: 37
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Niece
Marital status: Single
Father's Birthplace: New York, USA
Mother's Birthplace: New York, USA
Occupation: Servant House
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William Mason 51
Emily F Mason 51
Permilla S Mason 18
Alvin L Mason 14
Cecil A Mason 10
Rufus Mason 56
Cora P Mason 19
Source Citation
Year: 1900; Census Place: Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0103; FHL microfilm: 1241439
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
33277. Franklin Sibley "Frank" Carpenter
CENSUS: 1850 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1860 US Census - with parents
CENSUS: 1865 New York State Census - with parentsCENSUS: 1870 US Census - not with parents
CENSUS: 1880 US Census
Name: Frank Carpenter
Age: 31
Birth Date: Abt 1849
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1880: Newfield, Tompkins, New York, USA
Dwelling Number: 478
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's Name: Hattie Carpenter
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Occupation: Laborer
Months Not Employed: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Frank Carpenter 31
Hattie Carpenter 30
Lamont Carpenter 5
Theron Carpenter 3
Claud Carpenter 1
Source Citation
Year: 1880; Census Place: Newfield, Tompkins, New York; Roll: 938; Page: 328D; Enumeration District: 240
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
SEE ALSO: old school
1880 United States Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Frank CARPENTER Self M Male W 31 NY Laborer NY NY
Hattie CARPENTER Wife M Female W 30 NY Keeping House VA NY
Lamont CARPENTER Son S Male W 5 NY NY NY
Theron CARPENTER Son S Male W 3 NY NY NY
Claud CARPENTER Son S Male W 1 NY NY NY
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Source Information:
Census Place Newfield, Tompkins, New York
Family History Library Film 1254938
NA Film Number T9-0938
Page Number 328DCENSUS: 1890 US Census - burned
CENSUS: 1900 US Census - see image: RIN 96205 Frank Carpenter 1900.jpg
AND RIN 96205 Frank Carpenter 1900b.jpg
United States Census, 1900
Name: Frank Carpenter
Titles & Terms:
Residence: Ithaca city, Tompkins, New York
Birth Date: Feb 1849
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Spouse: Hattie Carpenter
Spouse's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Birthplace: New York
Father:
Father's Titles & Terms:
Father's Birthplace: Don't Know
Mother:
Mother's Titles & Terms:
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name: Frank Carpenter
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 25
Estimated Marriage Year: 1875
Mother How Many Children:
Number Living Children:
Immigration Year:
Enumeration District: 0155
Page: 13
Sheet Letter: B
Family Number: 349
Reference Number: 96
Film Number: 1241169
Image Number: 00130
Household Gender Age
Frank Carpenter M
Spouse Hattie Carpenter F
Child Theron Carpenter M
Child Bessie Carpenter F
Child Maud Wood F
Samuel Wood MCENSUS: 1910 US Census
United States Census, 1910
Name: Frank Carpenter
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Residence: Ithaca Ward 5, Tompkins, New York
Marital Status: Married
Race : White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: United States
Mother's Birthplace: United States
Family Number: 351
Page Number: 12
Household Gender Age
Frank Carpenter M 54y
Spouse Hattie Carpenter F 52y
Child Bessie M Carpenter F 24yCENSUS: 1920 US Census
United States Census, 1920
Name: Frank Carpenter
Residence: , Tompkins, New York
Estimated Birth Year: 1851
Age: 69
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Film Number: 1821265
Digital Folder Number: 4442095
Image Number: 00757
Sheet Number: 8
Household Gender Age
Frank Carpenter M 69y
Spouse Harriet Carpenter F 70y
Charles L Soule M 25y
Child Bessie Soule F 28y
Merle L Senle M 3y10m
Vivian A Senle F 1y3m
Raymond Stilson M 17yCENSUS: 1930 US Census
United States Census, 1930
Name: Frank Carpenter
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Ithaca, Tompkins, New York
Gender: Male
Age: 81
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Estimated Birth Year: 1849
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's Birthplace: United States
Mother's Birthplace: United States
Enumeration District Number: 0028
Family Number: 167
Sheet Number and Letter: 6A
Line Number: 41
NARA Publication: T626, roll 1654
Film Number: 2341388
Digital Folder Number: 4638868
Image Number: 00516
Household Gender Age
Frank Carpenter M 81
Spouse Hattie Carpenter F 80CENSUS: 1940 US Census - not found
Parents
John Thomas Wescott 1817–1885
Nancy Smith 1810–1893CENSUS: 1900 US Census
Hattie had given birth to 6 children of which 5 are alive in the 1900 US Census.DEATH: image
Name: Harriet Carpenter
Death Date: 3 Mar 1934
Death Place: Ithaca, New York, USA
Certificate Number: 17134
Source Citation
New York Department of Health; Albany, NY; NY State Death Index
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852-1956 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.
Original data: NY State Death Index, New York Department of Health, Albany, NY.
She had children:
Claude Ashley Wood 1900–1973
Mable Hawthorne Wood 1903–1978
Frieda W Wood Pipher 1905–1986
Bethel Wood Boyle 1910–1991
Albert Wood 1912–
Georgia Alberta Wood Hendrickson 1912–1977
Leona Wood Bossard 1915–1985
Hazel K Wood 1918–1996
Raymond Wood 1921–2007
Stanley Wallace Wood 1924–2004
CENSUS: 1880 US Census - With parents.
CENSUS: 1900 US Census - See image: RIN 131512 James Carpenter 1900 ... jpg
Name: James Carpenter
Titles:
Residence: Forest River village, Walsh, North Dakota
Birth date: Feb 1826
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to head-of-household: Father
Spouse's name: Elizabeth Carpenter
Spouse's titles:
Spouse birthplace: New York
Father's name:
Father's titles:
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's name:
Mother's titles:
Mother's birthplace: New York
Race or color (expanded): White
Head-of-household name: James Carpenter
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Years married: 49
Estimated marriage year: 1851
Mother how many children:
Number living children:
Immigration year:
Enumeration district: 0199
Sheet number and letter: 11B
Household id: 185
Reference number: 80
GSU film number: 1241233
Image number: 00540
Collection: United States Census, 1900
BIRTH:
Idaho Births and Christenings, 1856-1965
Name: John Tyer Carpenter
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date:
Baptism/Christening Place:
Birth Date: 06 Feb 1909
Birthplace: Meridian, Ada, Idaho
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race: White
Father's Name: H. B. Carpenter
Father's Birthplace: Ill.
Father's Age: 60
Mother's Name: Nellie T. Tyer Carpenter
Mother's Birthplace: Iowa
Mother's Age: 40
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C73335-8
System Origin: Idaho-EASy
Source Film Number: 1509774
Reference Number: p 36 cn 234CENSUS: 1910 US Census - with parents
Age 1 yr. 7 mo. in census.CENSUS: 1920 US Census - single with mother
United States Census, 1920
Name: John T Carpenter
Residence: , Ada, Idaho
Estimated Birth Year: 1910
Age: 10
Birthplace: Idaho
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's Birthplace: Iowa
Film Number: 1820287
Digital Folder Number: 4300158
Image Number: 00267
Sheet Number: 5
Household Gender Age
Parent Nellie T Carpenter F 50y
John T Carpenter M 10y
Jessie Carpenter F 19y
Esther Mutch F 21y
Pearl Thomas F 16yCENSUS: 1930 US Census - single with mother
United States Census, 1930
Name: John T Carpenter
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Moscow, Latah, Idaho
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Birthplace: Idaho
Estimated Birth Year: 1909
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's Birthplace: Iowa
Enumeration District Number: 0012
Family Number: 51
Sheet Number and Letter: 2B
Line Number: 90
NARA Publication: T626, roll 401
Film Number: 2340136
Digital Folder Number: 4584327
Image Number: 00705
Household Gender Age
Parent Nellie T Carpenter F 60
John T Carpenter M 21PICTURE: See image: RIN 140656 John Carpenter & Vinnie Easton 1930.jpg
... Attached is a photo of John T. and Vinnie in Montana in 1930, taken by Nellie (Tyer) Carpenter. My mother's side of the family comes from a long line of Mormons, so plenty of info there with huge family books. Carpenter line has always been sketchy. Thank you for everything you sent and the links. Lots to review and ponder.
Scott
MARRIAGE: See image: RIN 140656 John Carpenter Marriage.jpg
Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950
Name: John Tyer Carpenter
Titles & Terms:
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 15 Jun 1931
Event Place: Roscoe, Carbon, Montana
Age: 22
Marital Status: Single
Previous Spouse:
Race: White
Birth Date:
Birthplace: Meridian, Ada, Idaho
Estimated Birth Year: 1909
Father: Howard B. Carpenter
Father's Titles & Terms:
Mother: Nellie Tyler
Mother's Titles & Terms:
Paternal Grandfather:
Paternal Grandmother:
Maternal Grandfather:
Maternal Grandmother:
Additional Relatives:
Spouse: Vinnie Elma Easton
Spouse's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Age: 21
Spouse's Marital Status: Single
Spouse's Race: White
Spouse's Birth Date:
Spouse's Birthplace: Fishtail, Carbon, Montana
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1910
Spouse's Father: Edwin T. Easton
Spouse's Father's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Mother: Elma Southworth
Spouse's Mother's Titles & Terms:
Spouse's Paternal Grandfather:
Spouse's Paternal Grandmother:
Spouse's Maternal Grandfather:
Spouse's Maternal Grandmother:
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: 3467
Film Number: 1941110
Digital Folder Number: 4351456
Image Number: 348
Alive in August 2011.
Alive in August 2011.
FSFTID # LKBY-DDH
FSFTID # LB27-RX4
FSFTID # LB27-R17
33310. LTC Charles Martson Carpenter
FSFTID # LKBY-GGQ
CENSUS: 1920 US Census - with mother
Name: Charles M Carpenter
Age: 7
Birth Year: abt 1913
Birthplace: Illinois
Home in 1920: Rock Island Precinct 28, Rock Island, Illinois
Street: 45 Ave
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's name: Lois M Carpenter
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Attended School: yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Lois M Carpenter 33
Mildred E Carpenter 11
Margaret E Carpenter 9
Charles M Carpenter 7 <--------------
Fredrick M Carpenter 6
Eugene H Carpenter 4
Helen M Carpenter 2
Source Citation
Year: 1920; Census Place: Rock Island Precinct 28, Rock Island, Illinois; Roll: T625_403; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 152
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.CENSUS: 1930 US Census - with mother and grandmother
Name: Charles M Carpenter
Birth Year: abt 1913
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Illinois
Marital status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Grandson
Home in 1930: Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Map of Home: View Map
Dwelling Number: 37
Family Number: 37
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Able to Speak English: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Emily Marston 78
Lois M Carpenter 44
Mildred E Carpenter 21
Charles M Carpenter 17 <---------
F Merle Carpenter 16
Eugene H Carpenter 14
Helen M Carpenter 12
Neighbors: View others on page
Source Citation
Year: 1930; Census Place: Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0015; FHL microfilm: 2340287
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.CENSUS: 1940 US Census - with mother
Name: Charles Carpenter
Age: 27
Estimated birth year: abt 1913
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Illinois
Marital status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Inferred Residence in 1935: Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 3A
Occupation: History
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 48
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in Government work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 41
Income: 1700
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Lois M Carpenter 54
Mildred Carpenter 31
Charles Carpenter 27 <----------
Source Citation
Year: 1940; Census Place: Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois; Roll: m-t0627-00874; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 81-15
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.MILITARY:
Served in Europe 1944/1945
WWII US Army Air Corp - L-4 pilot - Patton's 3rd Army, Fourth Armored DivisionCENSUS: 1950 US Census - due out in 2022
CENSUS: 1960 US Census - due out in 2032OBIT: image
Name: Charles M. Carpenter
Gender: Male
Death Age: 53
Birth Date: 29 Aug 1912
Birth Place: Edgington
Marriage Date: 3 Jul 1940
Marriage Place: Moline
Residence Place: Champaign, 111.
Death Date: Abt 1966
Death Place: Ur-bana
Obituary Date: 24 Mar 1966
Obituary Place: Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Mother: Lois Carpenter
Spouse: Elda Fritchle
These facts were pulled from a record by a computer and may not be accurate. Obituary records often include facts for family members of the deceased, some of whom may be living.
Source Citation
Quad-City Times; Publication Date: 24/ Mar/ 1966; Publication Place: Davenport, Iowa, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/305124444/?article=244c05ee-ec1a-4ee6-b19a-83f8f256a442&focus=0.38463306,0.048027024,0.61465895,0.34861955&xid=2378
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019.
Original data: See newspaper information provided with each entry.GRAVE: images plus two photos with his L-4
LTC Charles M. “Bazooka” Carpenter
Birth: 29 Aug 1912 Edgington, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
Death: 22 Mar 1966 (aged 53) Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
Burial: Edgington Cemetery, Edgington, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
Memorial #: 79921835
Bio:
World War II Veteran
Originally Created by: P Fazzini (46565936)
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“Mad Major” Carpenter Attached 6 Bazookas To His Artillery Spotter Plane And Went Tank Hunting
Aug 29, 2015 Jack Knight
Charles Carpenter enlisted in the US Army in 1942 commissioned a second lieutenant. After completing flight training, Carpenter flew light observation aircraft and accumulated substantial flight training for enemy surveillance and observation and artillery scouting missions.
In 1944, Carpenter was promoted and assigned to combat duty with the 1st Bombardment Division in France. When he arrived, he was assigned to fly artillery support and surveillance missions with a Piper Cub light aircraft – an L-4H.
This assignment was supporting part of General George S. Patton’s U.S. Third Army. The Piper L-4H had a combined weight capacity of approximately 232 pounds, including cargo and passenger.
Of note, it should also be mentioned that there was no radio aboard.
By the time of the Allied siege of Lorient and the encirclement of German forces around that city, Carpenter had become annoyed at not being able to attack Nazi forces during the occasions when Allied artillery was out of reach or assault aircraft were occupied in other combat missions.
Carpenter had noticed that other pilots had installed bazookas as armament on their planes as anti-tank fire. So with approval from Command Headquarters, Carpenter first attached two bazookas to the wings of his plane, which he called Rosie the Rocketer.
After some testing, Carpenter added two more rocket launchers, then later, two more for a total of six bazookas.
Carpenter’s bazookas each fired a single rocket-propelled anti-tank grenade with a battery ignited toggle switch operated by the pilot. The bazooka’s warhead could pierce approximately three inches (76 mm) of armor on impact when fired at a 30° flight angle, even though the rocket was highly ineffectual against the front armor of the German Tiger tanks.
Now with his aircraft armed, Carpenter began attacking German armored forces. With any firm hit against the thinner armor protecting the top of the tank, Carpenter found that even against the heavy tanks such as the Tiger I, using the bazookas as airborne weapons were quite effective at immobilizing the Nazi tank targets.
Most of Major Carpenter missions were flown alone because any additional weight had a negative impact on the plane’s maneuverability and speed.
When on the attack, Carpenter’s usual routine was to find his target while he was in the air, then corkscrew down before rapidly diving at the enemy tank or other target and releasing his bazooka grenades.
It wasn’t essential the enemy target be destroyed; as long as a tank was stopped from advancing any further. Within a short time, Carpenter was credited with immobilizing four Nazi tanks, two of which were Tiger 1 tanks, and knocking out a German armored car. Carpenter quickly became known as known as “The Mad Major” or “Bazooka Charlie” by his comrades in his unit.
His Carpenter’s heroic acts were soon recognized by several media accounts, including the Associated Press, the New York Sun, the Stars and Stripes, Liberty Magazine, and Popular Science.
Major Carpenter was the private pilot for General John S. Wood, the commanding officer of the 4th Armored Division, in addition to flying his other surveillance and attack missions.
His duties as a personal pilot, allowed Carpenter to avoid most artillery observation missions. This was very fortunate for him because it allowed him the time to bestow his own private war on the Nazi armored corps.
Carpenter was also involved in some ground warfare. On one occasion, Carpenter was inspecting some prospective landing fields in a jeep near Avranches, when German infantrymen attacked his location. Jumping atop a Sherman tank, Carpenter started firing a .50-caliber machine gun, while shouting for the other troops to attack the Nazis.
Directed by the machine gun fire and the tank guns from the US Sherman tank, the Americans forced the Germans to retreat. Eventually, Carpenter’s Sherman came upon some Allied forces and accidentally shot at a Sherman bulldozer tank, blowing off the blade.
Carpenter was placed under arrest for the friendly fire incident and threatened with death by a firing squad until his commanding officer, General Wood, came to his support.
He was told he would be court-martialed for his actions. Suddenly, this decision was overturned by General Patton himself. Patton not only stopped the trial proceedings but awarded the major the Silver Star for bravery!
Patton said, that Carpenter was the type of American fighter he wanted in his army!
Initially, during Carpenter’s missions, he faced very little return ground fire. The Nazis were hesitant to fire on the light aircraft because they didn’t want to reveal their position, as doing so would draw fire from the Allied artillery or, worse, bring in the Allied fighter/bomber support.
However, as Carpenter’s bazooka attacks became more frequent and damaging, the Nazi return ground fire increased. Even the German infantry troops would fire at Carpenter with rifles and pistols trying to down “The Mad Major”.
On one occasion, Carpenter told a reporter from the Stars and Stripes that the enemy troops must have gotten the word to fire whatever they have at light aircraft with bazookas mounted on them.
Now, every time I’m on a mission they shoot whenever they see me. They never used to bother with me. The bazookas must be making them mad.
September 20, 1944, during the Battle of Arracourt near Nancy, France, was one of Carpenter’s longest missions. It began when the Nazi armored division forces launched a sudden tank attack pinning down several 4th Armored Division support units.
Major Carpenter boarded his armed L-4 and soared into the sky, but he couldn’t see the ground below because of heavy fog. He was beginning to worry; he couldn’t locate the enemy.
Around noon, the fog began to clear, and Carpenter spotted a company of Nazi Panther tanks and armored cars pressing forward to Arracourt.
Diving through a barrage of German infantry fire during a continual sequence of assaults against the Nazi formation, Carpenter emptied all of his bazooka tubes. Carpenter returned to reload and flew two more missions that afternoon.
During this long mission, he fired at least sixteen bazooka rockets at the oncoming enemy. “Bazooka Charlie” was given credit for immobilizing two Panther tanks and several armored vehicles, while killing or wounding a dozen or more enemy troops.
The remainder of the German tank formation had to retreat because of Carpenter’s unnerving assaults to the enemy. These heroic attacks enabled a pinned down 4th Armored Division support crew, who had witnessed what Major Carpenter did that day, to escape capture and possibly death.
By the end of the war, Major Carpenter had destroyed several German armored cars and immobilized at least 14 Nazi tanks (he would be credited officially with two Tiger I tanks completely destroyed from a total six tanks destroyed) and had also participated in several ground combat actions.
Carpenter gained another nickname – because he never got as much as a scratch from enemy fire, he was also called, “The Lucky Major.”
In recognition of his bravery and ‘call to duty’, Carpenter was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and awarded the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster.ARTICLE: images
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Bazooka Charlie and the Grasshopper: A Tale of World War II
The most famous small airplane of the war is about to fly again.
By Jim Busha
AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE
APRIL 2020
Joe Scheil is a numbers guy. When he sees an interesting airplane, he looks for its serial number in an online database or published reference work to learn what he can about it. He adds the information he finds to one of several Excel spreadsheets he has created with details on hundreds of airplanes organized by their serial numbers. In 2017, while reading an article in the Experimental Aircraft Association’s magazine Warbirds of America, Scheil came across a photo of a famous World War II Piper L-4 Grasshopper, serial number 43-30426, and decided to find out more.
The article was about Charles Carpenter, an L-4 pilot who became known as “Bazooka Charlie” for his exploits against German tanks. The Grasshopper—a Piper Cub as a civilian—was flown during the war as a liaison and observation airplane, but Carpenter, war-weary and homesick, became dissatisfied with flying as an artillery spotter, scouting ahead of the advancing 4th Armored Division of General George Patton’s 3rd Army. Instead, he bolted six M1A1 bazookas on the wing struts of his Piper and rained fire on Panzer columns. “It was like a sparrow trying to attack an elephant,” says his daughter, Carol Apacki, who had written the article Joe Scheil read, “except this sparrow had fangs.”
Carpenter wasn’t the first pilot to hang weapons on an L-bird—as liaison airplanes like the Aeronca L-3, Stinson L-5 Sentinel, and the L-4 are known—but he was almost certainly the most effective at using them. In October 1944 alone, he destroyed four tanks and an armored truck. On the side of his airplane, he painted “Rosie the Rocketer,” a tribute, Apacki says, to the women working in aircraft factories back home, who were nicknamed Rosie the Riveter.
Besides picking out the Piper’s registration number, Scheil—an airline pilot and Cub owner who reads a lot of military aviation history—saw something else in the photograph of Carpenter and his airplane: a reminder of another photo, often included in histories of World War I. “It’s the picture of Frank Luke in front of his SPAD, the day before he died,” says Scheil. Luke, the first pilot to receive the Medal of Honor and at the time of his death the country’s leading ace, was, like Carpenter, unconventional and aggressive in combat. Scheil says Luke and Carpenter had the same casual pose and the same sad look. By the time Carpenter’s photo was taken, “all the ineptitude, naiveté, and bewilderment of the Americans as we were getting ourselves killed in North Africa” was gone, Scheil says. What he saw in Carpenter was the grind of the war after Normandy and the grief borne by airmen who had witnessed its horrors.
Charles Carpenter and his small airplane were also similar in some ways. Innocent in its early days, the Piper Cub was painted sunny yellow with a black lightning bolt running the 22-foot length of its fuselage. Nothing beats a Cub on a warm summer afternoon with the side door open: Pilot and passenger can watch the world float slowly by.
With a gross weight of 1,220 pounds, a cruising speed around 80 mph, and Model T simplicity, the Cub gently introduced thousands of pilots to flight from the late 1930s to 1944 through the U.S. Civilian Pilot Training Program.
Carpenter could also be considered a trainer. Before America’s entry into World War II, he taught history in a Moline, Illinois high school. “In the summers, he ran a boys’ camp in the Ozarks,” his daughter writes in Warbirds, “a camp that focused on teaching outdoor skills and building character.”
When the war began, the Cub traded its yellow paint for olive drab, and Carpenter enlisted in the U.S. Army, commissioned as a second lieutenant. Flying at an altitude of 1,500 feet, the L-4 Grasshoppers could speed the advance of tank columns by reporting the positions of the enemy. Initially German soldiers feared giving away their positions by firing on L-birds, but the calculus quickly changed. In June and July 1944, General Omar Bradley’s 1st Army lost 49 artillery spotting aircraft and 33 pilots. Flying at low altitude made the pilots vulnerable even to light anti-aircraft fire. Once Carpenter started firing bazookas, the Germans saw him—and every other Grasshopper—as a threat. “Every time I show up now, they shoot with everything they have,” he told a Stars and Stripes reporter.
Watching mayhem from his 1,500-foot perch and barely escaping gunfire eventually took a toll on Carpenter. In a poem he wrote after the war, “Incident in the Woods,” he tries to capture the impact of combat on vanquished and victor alike. He describes coming upon an enemy officer tending to a soldier who had been shot: “The soldier dead, the man had returned/ To save some seeming trifle./ It was a baby thing, blue, and partly burned./ He folded it and kicked his loaded rifle./ I led him from that torn and stinking spot;/ May fire and grassy time soften memory./ Willing guards took him at the prison lot,/ And smiled, and wrongly guessed me free.”
In early 1945, Carpenter was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease (a type of cancer), given a prognosis of no more than two years, and sent home. (Instead, he lived another 21 years.) His airplane was assigned to another pilot. When the hostilities ceased in Europe, Piper L-4 aircraft, which had cost the government only $2,500 each, weren’t worth shipping home; they were either scrapped or sold as surplus. The Piper L-4 flown by Carpenter met one of those two fates. Until Scheil decided to look into it, no one cared which one.
Within hours of reading Apacki’s article about her dad, Scheil found that the L-4H, serial number 43-30426, had been left in a German surplus yard in September 1946. He first searched a list of military aircraft serial numbers on joebaugher.com, a website familiar to most warbird fans and packed with information about U.S. military airplanes. And there it was: On the site, the military serial number is linked with the manufacturer’s serial number 11717. With that manufacturer’s number, Joe Baugher’s source—he also lists on his website the people who email him information—found that after the war, the airplane was registered in Switzerland as HB-OBK and in April 1956, re-registered in Austria as OE-AAB. With further research, Scheil learned that Heinz Wullschleger of Olten was the first to register the Cub and that when the registration changed in 1956, the aircraft, sporting yellow Cub colors, became part of the Austrian Aero Club in Vienna, where it towed gliders.
For a number of years, the little Piper flew as a civilian until, as the second aircraft ever registered in Austria (signified by the designation AAB; AAA being the first), it was acquired by the Österreichisches Luftfahrtmuseum at Graz Airport. That’s where it was in 2017, when Scheil tracked it down. Bingo. Scheil called Rob Collings.
One of the foremost warbird collectors in the United States, Collings is the chief executive officer of the nonprofit Collings Foundation, which has supported the restoration and display of two dozen historic warbirds, including a Curtiss P-40 that had been in a hangar at Pearl Harbor on the day of the Japanese attacks and a Supermarine Spitfire that had flown 116 combat missions. The foundation also supports the Wings of Freedom tour, which sells rides aboard the P-40, a P-51, and several large bombers.
Scheil, one of the pilots who had flown the B-17 and a B-24 on the Wings of Freedom Tour, knew that Collings was looking for a combat aircraft that had seen action during the war.
“There are none that are obtainable,” Scheil says. “There’s no P-47 from the Eighth [Air Force] or the Ninth. We were looking for something that could capture the fight from Normandy to Germany—for an aircraft that was doing air-to-ground work.” Surviving P-51 Mustangs had all been spoken for, Scheil says. “So when this Cub showed up with an unknown number of tanks and armored cars killed, it was oddly enough the most destructive aircraft that we had extant from the ground war across Europe.”
Scheil says Carpenter and his Grasshopper are credited with stopping a German counterattack in one battle. “That was a very significant accolade paid in 4th Armored Division records to a liaison aircraft,” he says.
Rob Collings traveled to Graz, Austria to examine the Piper Cub then registered as OE-AAB.
“When I first saw the L-4 in person it had recently been recovered and was being restored as a static display,” says Collings. “We didn’t know too much about it because it had fresh fabric on it, and they weren’t keen to let us start cutting into it.” The museum was unaware of the airplane’s service in World War II, but Collings could see the serial number on the data plate. Not until the airplane was returned to the United States and stripped to the bare frame, however, could he confirm the parts numbers against Piper records.
In 2004, Colin Powers, the restoration manager for the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, won a trophy for the restoration of a Piper Cub that had served in the Pacific. “I bought it in pieces,” says Powers, “and I thought it would be a fun project to do.” The trophy was awarded by the National Aviation Heritage Invitational, which for many years has invited vintage airplane owners to display their airplanes at the national air races in Reno, Nevada, where they’re judged for the authenticity of the restoration. (Powers is now a Heritage judge.) More than 200,000 people attend the races and stroll among the classics in the Heritage competition, and one morning during race week, Powers saw on his L-4 a business card that had been tucked in its door. It was from the Reno fire marshal with a note saying that he was the nephew of famous L-4 pilot Charles Carpenter. From him, Powers learned that Carpenter’s daughter lived in Ohio. When the Heritage Invitational went to the Dayton Air Show the following year, Powers invited Carol Apacki to visit the airplane. She had never seen a Piper L-4. “I had her get in it and she became very emotional,” says Powers. “She didn’t really realize how vulnerable her father was while he was flying. We became friends after that.”
Later, Powers re-restored the airplane and won a trophy from the EAA for Reserve Grand Champion Warbird. After Collings finalized negotiations with the Austrian museum, he chose Powers to restore the L-4 because of his experience (Powers restored two more L-4s after his first one) and because Powers had such a strong connection with Carpenter’s daughter. Rosie the Rocketer was packed into a cargo container in Austria, trucked to Spain, and loaded on a cargo ship to New Jersey. The airplane traveled by train across the United States and arrived in Powers’ Portland shop in January 2019.
“Once we got it back to Oregon and had the fabric stripped off, we were just blown away,” says Collings. “We didn’t want to make everything perfectly new because what was underneath was in great condition. The original wooden spars still had great varnish on them. The ribs were bare aluminum but they were all clean. The grease pencil handwriting was there from the factory, with names and dates. These are things that you could never duplicate.”
With three L-4 restorations under his belt, Powers wasn’t expecting any surprises from Rosie the Rocketer, but he got a few. “Bullet holes,” he says. “One bullet had passed from the bottom through the leading edge of the aileron into the wing, went through the steel-plate hinge for the aileron, tore a big chunk of metal out of one of the ribs and exited out through the top of the wing. I’ve retained all of that [damage]; except on top of the wing, I’ll just put a patch where it exited.”
Powers also located a double patch on the front strut where the Army had patched both sides after a bullet had apparently entered on one side and exited on the other. Collings is intent on bringing the L-bird back to look exactly like it did in 1944. To do that, Powers has a long list of tasks.
“The airplane was modified,” he says. “The cowling and boot cowl and a lot of the instrument panel are all different and need to be replaced. They replaced the engine with a Continental C90.” As a glider tug, he says, it would have needed the increased power. “We have a period-correct, 65-horsepower Continental to install.”
They also replaced three of the instruments with German instruments. “Rob’s got a copy of the Piper build sheet,” says Powers, so he can determine what instruments were in it in 1944. “Keystone Instruments in Pennsylvania is refurbishing all the original instruments for us,” he says.
Finding six original M1A1 bazookas will be daunting. Powers is using photographs unearthed by Carol Apacki to guide him in mounting the bazookas. He knows they were mounted on a piece of plywood on the struts, but figuring out the proper angles is going to be trial and error.
“It gives me a lot of pride that I was asked to restore Rosie,” he continues, and says he hopes to fly it when it’s finished.
In an August 1944 letter home, Charles Carpenter wrote, “Lately I have been taking quite a few chances but my luck has been marvelous. Yesterday I got a bullet hole through the wing and hit a church steeple with one wheel. It was very little for what might have happened under the circumstances.”
More than 75 years later, Bazooka Charlie’s Grasshopper will fly again, to Oshkosh for the annual EAA fly-in and warbird judging. It is one of the last World War II veterans to return home, bullet holes and all.WIKIPEDIA: images
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Charles Carpenter
PICTURE: Charles Carpenter and his L-4 Grasshopper, Rosie the Rocketer (s/n 43-30426) mounting a trio of bazookas just outboard of the jury struts
Born: August 29, 1912 Edgington, Illinois, US
Died: March 22, 1966 (aged 53) Champaign, Illinois, US
Nationality: American
Occupation: Teacher
Military career:
Nickname(s): Bazooka Charlie
Allegiance: United States
Service/branch: United States Army
Years of service: 1942–1945
Rank: Lieutenant colonel
Battles/wars: World War II
Lt. Col. Charles "Bazooka Charlie" Carpenter (29 August 1912 – 22 March 1966) was a U.S. Army officer and army observation pilot who served in World War II. He is best remembered for destroying several enemy armored vehicles in his bazooka-equipped L-4 Grasshopper light observation aircraft.[1]
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World War II service
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Rosie the Rocketer
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Carpenter was born and raised in the town of Edgington, Illinois. He graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.[2]World War II service
Upon arriving in France in 1944, Carpenter was assigned an L-4 for artillery support and reconnaissance missions. With a 150-pound pilot and no radio aboard, the L-4H had a combined cargo and passenger weight capacity of approximately 232 pounds.[3][4]
Inspired by other L-4 pilots who had installed bazookas as anti-tank armament on their planes, Carpenter added bazooka launchers to his plane as well.[4][5][6]
Within a few weeks, on September 20, 1944, during the Battle of Arracourt, Carpenter was credited with knocking out a German armored car and four tanks.[6] Carpenter's plane, bearing USAAF s/n 43-30426, was known as Rosie the Rocketer (a play on Rosie the Riveter), and his exploits were soon featured in numerous press accounts, including Stars and Stripes, the Associated Press, Popular Science, the New York Sun, and Liberty magazine. Carpenter once told a reporter that his idea of fighting a war was to "attack, attack and then attack again."[7]
After destroying his fifth enemy tank, Carpenter told a Stars and Stripes correspondent that the "word must be getting around to watch out for Cubs with bazookas on them. Every time I show up now they shoot with everything they have. They never used to bother Cubs. Bazookas must be bothering them a bit."[8][9]
By war's end, Major Carpenter had destroyed or immobilized several German armored cars and tanks (he would be officially credited with six tanks destroyed).[6]Postwar service
In 1945, Carpenter became seriously ill, and was honorably discharged from U.S. Army service in 1946. He returned to work as a history teacher at Urbana High School in Urbana, Illinois, where he worked until his death in 1966 at the age of 53.[10]
Rosie the Rocketer
In October 2017, the same L-4H that then-Major Carpenter had flown in World War II was located at the Österreichisches Luftfahrtmuseum aviation museum at Graz Airport, and was acquired by the Collings Foundation for restoration to its WW II appearance by a restorer in La Pine, Oregon.[11]References
^ Gallagher, Wes, Charlie Fights Nazi Tanks in Cub Armed With Bazookas, The New York Sun, 2 October 1944
^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19441003&id=cA1GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wucMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1293,2590125
^ Piper Cub Weight & Balance Calculation, retrieved 24 October 2011
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a b Fountain, Paul, The Maytag Messerschmitts, Flying Magazine, March 1945, p. 90
^ Francis, Devon E., Mr. Piper and His Cubs, Iowa State University Press, ISBN 0-8138-1250-X, 9780813812502 (1973), p. 117
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a b c What's New in Aviation: Piper Cub Tank Buster, Popular Science, Vol. 146 No. 2 (February 1945) p. 84
^ Gallagher, Wes, Major Charles Carpenter, Once History Teacher, Now Legend in Patton's Army, The Rock Island Argus, 26 September 1944
^ The Stars and Stripes, Western Europe ed., Nancy Sector (France), (September 20–30, 1944)
^ Bazooka Charlie Becomes Tank Ace Today, Prescott Evening Courier, 11 October 1944, p. 2, retrieved 23 February 2015 from Google Books
^ In Memoriam, Urbana High School Class of 1962, retrieved 23 October 2011
^ Hogan, Jackson (March 9, 2019). "La Pine man restoring plane flown by 'Bazooka Charlie' in World War II". bendbulletin.com. The Bulletin (Bend, OR). Retrieved May 13, 2019. In 1944, U.S. Army pilot and artillery spotter [Major] Charles Carpenter was in France, fighting in the 4th Armored Division of Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army, when he had a crazy idea...Carpenter strapped three bazookas under each wing of his 1944 Piper L-4H, a frail reconnaissance plane not typically used for combat, flew over the German army and blasted multiple Panzer tanks and armored cars north of the town of Nancy. It earned him the nickname “Bazooka Charlie.”...75 years later, the Piper L-4H — nicknamed “Rosie the Rocketer” — has found its way to a rural garage near La Pine, where it's being restored by a retired engineer.External links
YouTube video detailing the history of "Bazooka Charlie's" anti-tank endeavors
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Birth: 17 Sep 1912
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Birth Date: 2 Oct 1913
Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1935
Residence Place: Rockford
Death Date: 2 Feb 2009
Burial Place: Reynolds, Ill.
Obituary Date: 5 Feb 2009
Father: Frederick Carpenter
Mother: Lois Carpenter
Spouse: Velma Hicks
Child: Gary
Bill Carpenter
Siblings: Mildred Cavanaugh
Eugene
Helen Rosenthal
Margaret Mortimer
Charles
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Frederick Merle Carpenter
Birth: 2 Oct 1913 USA
Death: 2 Feb 2009 (aged 95) Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
Burial: Reynolds Cemetery, Reynolds, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
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Velma Hicks Carpenter
Birth: 24 Jul 1913 Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
Death: 15 Dec 2007 (aged 94) USA
Burial: Reynolds Cemetery, Reynolds, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
Memorial #: 30860136
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Velma Carpenter, 94, of Rockford, Ill., died Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, in her home at Bickford House.
Private graveside services will be held in Reynolds Cemetery. Arrangements by Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1001 2nd Ave., Rockford.
To share a memory or send a private condolence, visit olsonfh.com.
She was born July 24, 1913, in Rock Island, the daughter of William R. and Ida Seaver Hicks. She married Frederick Merle Carpenter June 18, 1935.
Velma is survived by her husband, Frederick, Rockford; son, Bill (Janice) Carpenter; grandchildren, Leland Carpenter and Catherine (Kevin) Kitterman; great-grandchildren, Michael, Matthew and Sarah. She was preceded in death by her son, Gary; and brother, Voris.
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Helen C Rosenthal
Birth: 28 Oct 1917 Illinois, USA
Death: 25 Oct 2015 (aged 97) Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
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Julius N Rosenthal
Birth: 29 Sep 1908 Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Death: 24 May 2002 (aged 93) Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
Burial: Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
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worked with the Charles Ilfeld Company
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Spouse
Helen C Rosenthal 1917-2015
Created by: Bruce Wertz (46572133)
Added: 2 Nov 2015
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154534290/julius-n-rosenthal
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 March 2020), memorial page for Julius N Rosenthal (29 Sep 1908–24 May 2002), Find A Grave Memorial no. 154534290, citing Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA ; Maintained by Bruce Wertz (contributor 46572133) .
ANCESTRY: jroberts12_1
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/18560557/person/1692444500/factsSource Information
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census
1920 United States Federal Census
1930 United States Federal Census
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Washington, Deaths, 1883-1960
Washington, Find A Grave Index, 1821-2012