Description
Collection contains employment, academic and service records, photographs and certificates of accomplishment.
Background
Carroll Allen Bennett was born on June 24, 1921, in Chico, California. In 1940, he graduated from Sacramento County's Grant
Union High School and went to work for Shell Oil as a service station attendant. With the outbreak of war, he enlisted in
the United States Army and served as an airplane engine mechanic at Davis-Monthan Field in Tucson, Arizona. After honorable
discharge, Bennett returned to Sacramento, where he would serve as an aircraft worker and painter at McClellan Air Force Base
for several years. He married Miss Agnes LeBarr in January 1951. Bennett passed away in Sacramento in 1982.