Pilot of the B-24 “Lonesome Lady” which took off from Yontan Airfield, Okinawa on 28 July 1945 on a bombing mission against the Japanese battleship Haruna anchored in Kure Harbor by Hiroshima. After dropping their bombs, the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and went into a vertical dive, crashing in a field near the town of Ikachi. The entire crew was able to bail out. Cartwright was taken to Tokyo on 1 August 1945 for interrogation, saving his life, a most of the crew perished in the atom bomb blast in Hiroshima. When the war ended, he was marched to Omori POW Camp and was liberated on August 28 and departed via Tokyo POW Camp Branch #2 (Kawasaki). He passed away in Moab, Utah in Jan 2015.