Carl Allen was born on 22 April 1925 in New Lexington, Ohio.  He was the son of Perle and Gladys Allen and he had a brother named Ralph.  They lived at 122 McKeever Street in Crooksville.  Before the war, he worked as a coal truck driver while going to school. 

Carl joined the service on 19 June 1943, and shipped to Europe on 29 September 1944.  He was assigned to Company B of the 395th Infantry Regiment.  On 15 March 1945, the Regiment was assigned to take and hold Steinhardt, Germany, about a thousand years from the Weid Reiver.  Three attempts to do so on the 15th were repulsed.  Two were made on the 16th, the latter of which was succeeded.  After the town was taken, Germany artillery fired on the town from the opposite side of the Weid.  Carl was killed in this shelling, at the age of 19.

Information provided by Betrand Gégoire