The story is misleading in that in the summer of 1944, PFC Carneal was killed on Saipan which is part of the Northern Mariannas.
http://www.lindseyfuneral.com/sitemaker/sites/Lindse2/obit.cgi?user=1290073Carneal
Also, kind of hard to become a veteran when one is KIA.
Thank you for posting this. The original article is incoherent, the basic facts are ignored and the rest is a jumble of disconnected, random information. Journalists today can’t seem to write, they can’t seem to report, and they can’t get their facts straight.