Carson Gordon Floyd ”Gordy” born in 30-07-1924 in Geneva, New York 
to Willard Floyd Carson (1896–1958) 
and his wife Dorothy Jane born Pishon Carson (1899–1978) 
Gordon was married twice, first wife, married in 1945, Antonia Tosca, born Puchalski Carson 
(1923-2006) and second wife, married in 1958, Susan Cecil, born Taylor (1933–2024) 
Gordy had three brothers, William Wallace “Bill” Swanson, (1919–2008), 
Lawrence Gordon Carson (1925–2000) and Richard Wallace Carson.(1935–1981). Gordy attended Geneva High School 
before he enlisted.
Carson enlisted and volunteered for paratrooper. He was sent to training in Toccoa, Georgia.
Gordy was one of the five top scorers in physical competition at Toccoa. During their training in Aldbourne, Carson and William “Wild Bill” Guarnere
once smuggled two English girls to the Sergeants’ barrack, but was found out by Lieutenant Thomas Arthur Peacock.
Guarnere said both girls were his, and was given KP duty. Carson and other sergeants were given a night march.
Carson made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day
. 
He also made a jump for Operation Market-Garden. After the bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son, 
close to my hometown Eindhoven 
was blown by the Germans, Carson, seeing a couple of waterlogged row-boats on the other side, swam across the canal and fetched a boat back, hoping to carry the men across in it. The boat sank halfway over the canal.
During the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, Carson was wounded on his leg by tree burst, 
and was sent to an aid station. He was given creme de menthe for his pain. Carson rejoined Easy Company when it was moving towards Germany, where he became the company clerk for Captain Ronald Speirs 
. In Berchtesgaden, Carson found Hermann Göring‘s Merchedes car 
and went for a ride with Speirs. Before turning the car to the regiment, the two wanted to know if the car windows were bulletproof. They found out that they were not.
Easy Company was sent to Kaprun, Austria for occupation duty and to help with the displaced persons’ camps. Carson met with Antonia Puchalska 
in one of the DP camps, and the two fell in love. In his book Band of Brothers, Ambrose mentioned ‘a Polish D.P. and her small child’ and that ‘Carson fed an educated, beautiful and sophisticated Polish blond’ They both refer to Puchalska. Carson introduced Puchalska to Speirs, who put her as the interpreter for Easy Company. Later Carson filed the necessary papers to obtained permission to marry. With the war’s conclusion, by August 1945 the 506th was packing up and moving to join the 82nd Airborne 
in Berlin as stated on p. 297 of Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. In the “Parachute Infantry” by David Kenyon Webster, 
Chapter 6, page 253, E Company of the 506th PIR, commanded by Captain Ronald Speirs, moved out from the Kaprun Valley, Austria 
to journey back to France to a village named Joigny for shipment to the 82nd Airborne Division in Berlin. The 42nd Division 
under command of Major General Harry John Collins 
took command of the Kaprun Valley. The 101st Airborne Division was inactivated on 30-11-1945, and E Company no longer existed as stated in Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, Speirs discovered that Puchalska was pregnant with Carson’s baby. He then communicated to Carson who returned to Austria prior to being shipped back to the United States for separation. He had approval to marry Puchalska, and the two were married in 06-10-1945 in Zell am See. On the wedding day, George Luz 
found a rickshaw and pulled Puchalska around Kaprun while Gordon was finishing his duty. Following their marriage in October 1945, Carson was shortly shipped back to the United States where he was separated from the U. S. Army at Fort. Dix, New Jersey on 20–11-1945 pursuant to his official Separation Qualification Records, just 10 days before the 101st was inactivated. His first son was born 6 months later in Austria where Puchalska remained, including Puchalska’s child from her first marriage, until the necessary clearance papers as a War Bride were approved to come to the United States. She arrived in New York Harbor on 18-10-1946 via the ship SS President Tyler, 
where she and her two sons reunited with her husband at Staten Island, New York.
Death and burial ground of Carson Gordon Floyd ”Gordy”.
Second photo Gordy and Frank Joseph Perco Perconte
Carson and Puchalska divorced twelve years after their marriage which produced two sons and two daughters. Both of his sons became Veterans of the U.S. Army, and one of them reached the rank of Colonel, U.S. Army Retired. Carson remarried to a Susan C. Taylor later in December 1958, which marriage produced three daughters. Carson got liver cancer and died in 13-11-1998, age 74 in Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, USA. Gordy is buried at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, King County, Washington, United States, Section K Row D Site 33. 18600 SE 240th St Kent, WA 98042.
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