Background
He was born on July 20, 1887 to John M. Carberry in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
He was born on July 20, 1887 to John M. Carberry in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
He graduated from West Point with the class of 1910, and became one of the first United States military aviators in September 1913.
Carberry set an Army record for altitude carrying a passenger on December 26, 1913, piloting a Curtiss Model G to 7,800 feet (2,400 m). Number. 23, a Curtiss Model East airplane manufactured by Army aviators entirely from spare parts. On January 5, 1915 he set an altitude record of 11,690 feet (3,560 m), carrying Captain
Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger.
Carberry later served in the Mexican Punitive Expedition and on the Western Front, rising to the rank of Major. He was retired for disability in 1924, and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the retired list in 1930.
He died on November 12, 1961 in Los Angeles, and was buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.