[1] Carpenter led a behind-enemy-lines rescue of seven American airmen from Dien Bien Phu in Indochina in March, 1945.
He earned a Bronze Star for his service in World War II, and was a past president of the Delaware State Bar Association and of the American Judicature Society.
[4] In 1938, while a 17-year-old student in Lawrenceville, NJ, Carpenter wrote an essay entitled "Before I die...", setting out the things he hoped to achieve in his life.
[5] On July 18, 1970, Carpenter married Frances Carroll Braxton Morgan Gates (born 1941), at Fair Hall, in Mendenhall, Pennsylvania.
[6][7] She was previously engaged to John David Gates, a Yale graduate of Greenwich, Connecticut.