• Aug. 9, 1911 – Oct. 5, 1944
• From Maury County, Tennessee
• Liberal Arts – 1929-1931, Medicine – 1934
• Physician in Nashville, TN
• Major – Army
• Medical Corps. Killed when an army training plane crashed near Morristown, New Jersey.
• Buried at Highland Burial Park in Danville, Virginia

Brown Hutcheson Carpenter (Aug. 9, 1911 – Oct. 5, 1944) was born in Maury County, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee as an undergraduate in Liberal Arts from 1929 to 1931 and again at the College of Medicine in 1934. He worked at a physician in Nashville, Tennessee before enlisting in the United States Army’s Medical Corps at the start of the war. He served in the rank of Major as a surgeon stationed in Georgia with the Army and Army Air Corps training operations in the region. Major Carpenter was killed when an army training plane being used to ferry personnel  crashed near Morristown, New Jersey on its way to Newark on October 5, 1944. He is buried at Highland Burial Park in Danville, Virginia.

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