Edward a carter jr biography

Staff Sergeant Edward A. Carter, Jr. 

Sgt. First Class Edward A. Carter was one of only seven African Americans who belatedly received the Medal of Honor for their heroic actions during World War II.

As a warrior, Edward A. Carter Jr. had few peers.

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Carter was posthumously given the Medal of Honor.

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Edward Allen Carter Jr. was a United States Army sergeant first class who was wounded in action during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on March

Edward A. Carter Jr. was a career non-commissioned officer for the United States Army and one of the few African American recipients of the Medal of Honor.

Carter died at age 47 in January 1963 without an inkling that he would become, more than three decades later, California's most decorated African American hero of World War II.

Born in Los Angeles in 1916 to Reverend E.

A. Carter, a traveling missionary, and Mary Carter, a native of Calcutta, India, Carter grew up in India and moved to Shanghai, China, where he attended a military school. While in Shanghai, he ran away from home and joined the Chinese Nationalist Army fighting against invading Japanese.

Carter had to leave the Nationalist Army because he was not yet 18.

Edward Carter, Jr. eventually made his way to Europe and joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, an American volunteer unit supporting the Spanish Loyalists fighting ag