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I Didn't Know This About Obama's Uncle, Did You? (Obama's Great Uncle: Registered 11/10/1942, Navy
Yahoo! Answers ^ | 5/28/2008 | The Wiz

Posted on 05/28/2008 8:21:52 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

Here are the enlistment records of Charles W. Payne, brother of Madelyn Payne, great uncle of Obama:

Charles W. Payne, born 1924, enlisted 10 Nov '42, Navy, 6293977 REgistered, order #12019, Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., Board #4

So, Obama's great uncle liberated Buchenwald from his ship somewhere in the Pacific?

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To: StopBHO

Curiouser and curiouser


221 posted on 05/28/2008 2:35:54 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant; cardinal4

Since we’re discussing Barak Hussein Osama’s geneaology, I’d like to let all hands know that a couple of his brothers are hanging in my closet upstairs. A couple of empty suits have moved in there.


222 posted on 05/28/2008 3:00:37 PM PDT by Ax (Obama: the Potawatomi Pantload)
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1930 Census

Rolla C. Payne

Bookkeeper - Oil Company

WWI Vet


223 posted on 05/28/2008 3:30:19 PM PDT by maggief
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To: pissant
According to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission website, "On April 4, 1945, elements of the United States Army’s 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division captured the Ohrdruf concentration camp..."

A few days before the Americans arrived to liberate Ohrdruf, the SS guards had assembled all of the inmates who could walk and marched them off to Buchenwald. They left in the sub-camp more than a thousand bodies of prisoners who had died of bullet wounds, starvation, abuse, and disease. The scene was an indescribable horror even to the combat-hardened troops who captured the camp...

When General Eisenhower learned about the camp, he immediately arranged to meet Generals Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf on the morning of April 12th. By that time, Buchenwald itself had been captured. Consequently, Ike decided to extend the group’s visit to include a tour of the Buchenwald extermination camp the next day. Eisenhower also ordered every American soldier in the area who was not on the front lines to visit Ohrdruf and Buchenwald. He wanted them to see for themselves what they were fighting against.
© Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, Washington, DC, 2004

According to this, many (thousands??) US soldiers went to Ohrdruf and Buchenwald, on orders of General Eisenhower.

Could it be that Osama's great uncle was one of those soldiers? While there were a small number of US soldiers who were the actual liberators of the camp, IMO, all US soldiers fighting against the Nazis played a role in liberating the camps.

That said, I have a feeling that it was Osama who "embellished" his great uncle's actual role, and not the uncle.

Here is a historical US Army Signal Corps film of Ohrdruf (and Hadamar), from the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (double-click on the little Windows Media Player in the left corner of the page to watch in full screen.)

224 posted on 05/28/2008 4:06:32 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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That should read Obama, not Osama.

I get the two confused all the time.

225 posted on 05/28/2008 4:07:46 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: maggief

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Rolla Charles Payne
Name: Rolla Charles Payne
City: Not Stated
County: Wyandotte
State: Kansas
Birthplace: Kansas;United States of America
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1892 (Olathe, Kan.)
Race: Caucasian (White)
Roll: 1643944

Home address: 4012 West Port Ave, Rosedale, Kan.

What is your present trade, occupation, or office? book-keeper (28)

By whom employed? Oil Well Supply Co.

Where employed? Tulsa, Okla.

Married or single (which)? single


226 posted on 05/28/2008 4:39:46 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Non-Sequitur

Hay Army...Navy...

Thank God it wasn’t the Marine Corps..I don’t think he could get therer from the jungles of the Pacific!


227 posted on 05/28/2008 4:50:53 PM PDT by celtic gal
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Name: Charles Payne
Father: Rolla E
Birth: abt 1925
Residence: 1930 - Augusta, Butler, Kansas


228 posted on 05/28/2008 5:37:23 PM PDT by maggief
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Social Security Death Index
about Rolla Payne

Name: Rolla Payne
SSN: xxx-xx-1898
Last Residence: 67156 Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States of America
Born: 23 Aug 1892
Died: Oct 1968
State (Year) SSN issued: Oklahoma (Before 1951 )


229 posted on 05/28/2008 6:03:59 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I clicked on the Yahoo answers and was directed to this: This question has been deleted


230 posted on 05/28/2008 6:34:01 PM PDT by securityMama (I'm a Mississippian by choice!)
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To: El Gran Salseron

Almost every Marine serving in the ETO was a shipboard Fleet Marine on a capital-class warship.


231 posted on 05/28/2008 6:57:05 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: El Gran Salseron

I am wondering if the uncle had an attic.

I am serious.

JJ


232 posted on 05/28/2008 7:00:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The MSM will give him a free pass *AGAIN*.


233 posted on 05/28/2008 10:15:01 PM PDT by red state girl (never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP



234 posted on 05/29/2008 2:31:44 AM PDT by devolve (- Men - I want you all to relax! Let the 101st Airborne try again in 4 years! - Gen. George Patton)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Interesting Times; Grampa Dave; Travis McGee; ...


235 posted on 05/29/2008 5:54:24 AM PDT by devolve (- Men - I want you all to relax! Let the 101st Airborne try again in 4 years! - Gen. George Patton)
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To: devolve; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; Interesting Times; Grampa Dave; Travis McGee

hehehee!

Looks like this was a problem over on Yahoo!:

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Rut-Roh, Reorge !!

Hmmmmmm ....


236 posted on 05/29/2008 6:34:07 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO makes me wanna reach across the aisle, too. And SLAP some sense into the fools !!)
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To: pissant

That clears THAT up! /sarc.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/a-query-to-the-89th-divisions-website

# J Straight
May 29th, 2008 at 12:02 am

JacksonianDemocrat: Excellent analysis and source citation.

On the matter of the military service of Charlie Payne, the great-uncle of Barack Obama:

His full name is Charles Thomas Payne and he IS the uncle (the term “uncle” has in fact been used even for great-uncles in that family) who served in the Army in the 89th Infantry during WW II and suffered severe enough PTSD that, after coming back from the war, he isolated himself at home for some time.

Charles recovered, attended college and to this day is an active, mentally vital, 83 year-old resident of Chicago.

This information was obtained tonight from a phone conversation with members of the Payne family and is being posted to correct the mis-information that is swirling around the internet.

CORRECT info:
1. Charles’ middle initial is “T”, not “W”;
2. he did have what is now termed PTSD; and
3. he was so traumatized by what he encountered during the war, that he in fact did isolate himself at home for a lengthy period of time.

Charles is the second of FOUR Payne siblings:

1. Madelyn Lee
2. Charles Thomas
3. Margaret Arlene
4. Jon Virgil, (born 1937, which is why there is no listing for him in the 1930 Census of Augusta City, Butler County, Kansas. This census has been the only source offered for “Payne sibling info” oin all of the genealogical sites cited by those interested in this story.

I suspect that the listing for Charles E. Payne of Kansas is in fact the record for Charles Thomas Payne. I believe the scribe probably heard “E” instead of “T.” That type of error is frequent in census records and in military records where the info is provided orally:

Payne, Charles E. Inducted 9 June 1943, Army 37531353 Registered, order # V11125 Augusta, Butler Co. (Board # 2)

http://www.kshs.org/genealogis.....mit=SEARCH

J Straight


237 posted on 05/29/2008 7:00:49 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

I still smell a skunk.


238 posted on 05/29/2008 7:35:23 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: MeekOneGOP; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik

239 posted on 05/29/2008 7:43:47 AM PDT by devolve (- Men - I want you all to relax! Let the 101st Airborne try again in 4 years! - Gen. George Patton)
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