Carpenter, Clifford E.
Navy Aviation machinist’s mate 1

Clifford E. Carpenter, age 27, from Monroe County Bloomington, Indiana .

Spouse: Margie J. Carpenter
Children: Three son and one daughter

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Ellettsville High graduate

Date of death: Wednesday, January 30, 1963
Death details: He was aboard a new type of Navy plane, a submarine hunter, that was on a lengthy practice mission when it crashed into the Atlantic about 230 miles southeast of New York.
Cemetery: Memorialized at Springville West in Lawrence County

Source: Memorial marker, Indianapolis Star (1963), Minneapolis Star Tribune (1963)