Graduated Colorado School of Mines in 1935. Listed as "2nd Lt. Carl A. Allen O-884132 (deceased), address: 909 San Juan, La Junta, Colorado" source: p. 136, "Headquarter Roster", Roster of Officers, 'Officers formerly in the Ninth Air Force Headquarters' website: home.comcast.net/~dhsetzer/paper/Desert009 1943: buried at the American Cemetery, Carthage Tunisia source: 'Colorado WW2 deaths', submitted by Charles Barnum 2006 from Government records on www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cokitcar/colorado 1943: He is buried in Plot F, Row 19, Grave 6 and was awarded the Purple Heart source: American Battle Monuments Commission: www.abmc.gov/search/detail