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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From what I researched, he was piloting a B-25, crew of 5 including him.
God bless your uncle! My Dad was a gunners mate on a destroyer in WWII, served in both the Atlantic and pacific theaters.
Thank you and god bless your Dad too!!
That generation were awesome men!
Thank you, I’m sure he has spent the last 20 odd years turning over in his grave.
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