Charles G. Reynolds. / Credit: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency © Provided by CBS News
Posted on 09/12/2023 7:30:32 AM PDT by euram
The remains of a 24-year-old U.S. pilot who never returned from a bombing mission in World War II have been accounted for and confirmed, officials from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday.
Charles G. Reynolds was a U.S. Army Air Forces first lieutenant from Bridgeport, Ohio, the agency said in a news release. In late 1943, he was a pilot assigned to the 498th Bombardment Squadron in the Pacific Theater. On Nov. 27, 1943, the plane that he was a crewmember of did not return from a bombing mission near Wewak, New Guinea, the agency said, because the aircraft had taken heavy damage and was forced to make an emergency landing in a lagoon. Efforts to recover Reynolds's remains failed, and the crew was labeled missing in action at the time.
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God Rest His Soul.
Charles G. Reynolds. / Credit: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency © Provided by CBS News
Another good-looking young American patriot from a bygone era.
We won’t see their likes again
The Greatest Generation.........................
I have 7 uncles and they ALL served in WWII. One is still alive.....barely. He is a “little big man”. Meaning he’s only about 5’5” but served in the Navy in combat in the Solomon Islands on a destroyer. He was one of the loaders on an anti aircraft gun. The only pic I have of him is in his dress blues which I proudly wore 25 years after him!
This is good news for Charles Reynolds family and for all patriotic Americans.
That valiant man could’ve passed for Ricky Nelson’s brother.
My oldest uncle died piloting a B-26 Marauder in Europe. He was transporting muckity-mucks to North Africa. The pilot he replaced that day survived the war.
He was 23 when he died, married, his body washed up on a beach in Portugal, the locals buried him in their church graveyard.
My grandmother went ballistic and had the military dig up his body and transport it home to Indiana.
My grandmother never recovered. She fainted when the military and chaplain showed up to tell her the news. My dad remembers her screaming and crying for months on end.
Family didn’t speak of it when I was growing up, subject was taboo for some reason.
“in combat in the Solomon Islands on a destroyer. He was one of the loaders on an anti aircraft gun.”
My Father did too. Uss Perkins. His duty station was right above the magazine.
My father (Army) fought in New Guinea, on the island of Morotai, and in the Philippines on Mindanao. He entered combat a first lieutenant and returned a major...at the age of 24. War makes young men old too fast.
498th Bombardment Group
https://www.armyaircorpsmuseum.org/498th_Bombardment_Group.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/498th_Bombardment_Squadron
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Forever young.
...I had another Uncle who did the same thing on another destroyer and they were both in the Solomons at the same time. He was my Dad’s brother. The other one was my mother’s brother. But, they never crossed paths. My uncle told me once they were nearly always on the go due to so much active combat.
So weird how we take solace in these types of events.
Even pagans and unbelievers generally reflect with reverence on these situations.
God has placed eternity in the hearts of man (and women!!)
My uncle did graves registration and recovery in New Guinea during the war. His stories of climbing the mountains into the jungles in that place were amazing. I don’t doubt there were plenty of people lost in that place, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.
You’re going home hero. Rest in peace!
Rest in peace....
Small world. My wife’s father, Dr. N.L. Butler, was medical officer on the Perkins at that time. He was transferred just before she was sunk in a collision with a troop ship.
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