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As the son of missionaries, he grew up in India and China and learned four languages English, Mandarin, Hindi, and German.
Sergeant Edward Carter's first brush with combat was in 1932, at the age of 15, when he joined the Chinese Nationalist Army during the Shanghai Incident during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Sergeant Edward Carter's subsequent combat enlistment was with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of American volunteers that supported the Spanish loyalists during the Spanish Civil war.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army, and while assigned to the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion's 12th Armored Division during World War II, Sergeant Edward Carter earned a Congressional Medal of Honor when, after his tank was disabled, he, armed with a bazooka and having five wounds, still managed to kill six enemy soldiers and took two hostages.
Sadly, Sergeant Edward Carder was denied re-enlistment in 1949 because he was a suspected communist (due to his serving with the Chinese army at 15).
He worked in the tire industry until his death on January 30, 1963, of cancer.
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