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Note: y were speciality, Truck driver, Light 345 M4 w/Rifle EXP w/carbine SHG Description: Army Ray served with the US Army during the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations Campaign. Departed the UNITED STATES on 25 MAY 1945, PTO, Arrival date was 7 JUN 1945, Destination HAWAII; while awaiting their orders for departure from the San Francisco Bay, a Japanese Sub was spotted not far from port. Completed separation from the ARMY as PFC, HONORABLE DISCHARGE on 9 DECEMBER 1946. Departed from SCHOFIELD BARRACKS and returning to U.S. soil on 14 OCT 1946. Receiving the Following Medals: ASIATIC PACIFIC THEATER RIBBON, VICTORY MEDAL GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL. LAPEL BUTTON WAS ISSUED A.S.R. SCORE (2 SEP 45) 13 2 OVERSEAS SERVICE BARS Too many of the younger generations have no idea what the freedoms they enjoy today cost millions of people 60 years ago, people today are reading where more and more of these veterans are opening up so as to tell their stories and their experiences, as for my daddy, he rarely spoke of his experiences, or what he saw, he passed away in January of 1999, I lost the chance to sit and talk with him before I finished my book and so here I am looking into anything I might find in his past of his experiences, maybe to find the man who he was to become, for me learning of the past helps keep his memory alive, to know what my parents did during the war, we the offspring of World War II veterans are the "caretakers of our parents' memories" so we use the internet to search for answers now, and we go to memorials or reunions to find the answers to what we are looking for, this May in Washington D.C., a long awaited WWII Veterans Memorial opens to honor the memory of our fathers and the war they kept to themselves, a Memorial the World War II veterans so deserve. Today now some open up in the hopes that the memory will not die with them but live on.They were all damn proud as we are of them, Each a hero in their own right!! Four years after the war daddy met and married my mom, they settled in Detroit, and daddy went to work, while mom stayed home and raised the children that came shortly after they wed. Ray was a hard worker and building garages was something he enjoyed doing, he began contracting in 1949, and continued it as a side job, even after he was hired in at Kolene as part-time in maintenance about 1957, and did everything there was to do, up to and including sales man, also including going out of town to companies and fixing their machines, so many places tried to hire him the last being in Minnesota and which they almost moved there. Never having had any type of medical insurance and always paying cash for their first five childrens births daddy was put on full time at Kolene with medical benefits, just in time for baby brother Steve's birth in 1960. In 1976 after his hip replacement, he was in Quality Control and Sales, a job made for him! In 1957 my parents bought their first property @ 22112 Studio Street in Taylor, Michigan, where there they raised nine children and remained there until his retirement in April of 1989, at which time they moved to Kentucky, where Ray's mother and brothers resided in the peaceful surroundings of a beautiful countryside. Obituary from The Times Leader Princeton, Ky. Jan. 23, 1999 Raymond "Tiege" Cartwright, 72, of the Pleasant Grove Community, Caldwell County, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 1999 at Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, following a long illness. A World War II veteran, quality control employee at a heat treating plant, he attended Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and was born July 6, 1926, and was a son of Ruth Sheperd Cartwright and the late Norman Cartwright who died in 1978. He was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Jessica Rae Hampton, and two sisters, Lorraine Ingersoll and Annie May Berry. Survivors include his wife, Helen Schmerer Cartwright; three sons, and daughters-in-law, Randy and Lori Cartwright of Garden City, Mich., Steve and Debbie Cartwright of Allen Park, Mich., and Joe and Jennifer Cartwright of Taylor, Mich.; four daughters and sons-in-law, Diane and Tom Shumake, Taylor, Mich., Karen and Ken Bos of Lincoln Park, Mich., Jeannie and Micky Bales of Atlanta, Ga., and Faye and Harold Hampton of Wyandotte, Mich.; two daughters, Patty Humphrey of Ypsilanti, Mich., and Kathy Jackson of Inkster, Mich.; 26 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and three brothers, Robert Cartwright of Westland, Mich., and Willard Cartwright and Wayne Cartwright, both of Caldwell County. Funeral services Monday, Jan. 25, at Morgan's Funeral Home in Princeton with the Rev. Ed Rawlings officiating, assisted by Rev. Richie McKinney. Burial will follow in Newsom Cemetery, Caldwell County, Ky. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 about Raymond E Cartwright Name: Raymond E Cartwright Service Info.: US ARMY WORLD WAR II Birth Date: 6 Jul 1926 Death Date: 21 Jan 1999 Burial: Newson Cemetery
Note: RAYMOND Cartwright Entered into the U. S. ARMY 14, November 1944, Place of entry was Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA, completing his basic training at Chicago, Illinois. His duties in the Arm
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