[StopBHO]

It’s possible that the genealogy site linked by Dan Riehl has the middle initial wrong. If you assume that the middle initial wasn’t “W,” there actually were five Charles Paynes in the army from Kansas: a Charles A, a Charles E, a Charles J, and two Charles Ls (the second one is a Charlie rather than Charles). So it’s possible that it’s one of them. The problem remains, though, that we don’t have any record of a Charles Payne in the 89th, and the only potential candidate (C. T. Payne) doesn’t have any of those middle initials.

http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/05/maybe_he_sailed.html

[pissant]

Are we sure that he was from Kansas at the time of the war?

[FMBass]

“and the only potential candidate (C. T. Payne) doesn’t have any of those middle initials.”

Always Right’s Post 138 shows:

Payne, Charles T. Enlisted 13 December 1942, Navy 3427439 Unregistered Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. (Board # 4)

[TornadoAlley3]

http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/obama_two.htm

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