Six people named Charles T. Payne served but none of them were from Kansas or born in 1924.
31390667 PAYNE#CHARLES#T######### MASSACHUSETTS WORCESTER FT DEVENS MASSACHUSETTS 43 Civil Life 10
33141649 PAYNE#CHARLES#T######### DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FT GEORGE G MEADE MARYLAND 42 Civil Life 14
33225579 PAYNE#CHARLES#T######### VIRGINIA SPOTSYLVANIA RICHMOND VIRGINIA 42 Civil Life 18
34356568 PAYNE#CHARLES#T#JR###### GEORGIA CHEROKEE FT MCPHERSON ATLANTA GEORGIA 42 Civil Life 20
06954762 PAYNE#CHARLES#T######### TEXAS WOOD SCOTT FIELD ILLINOIS 46 Enlisted Reserve or Medical Administrative Corps (MAC) Officer 20
37654343 PAYNE#CHARLES#T######### IOWA SAC FT SNELLING MINNESOTA 46 Undefined Code 23
Always Right’s Post 138 shows: Payne, Charles T. Enlisted 13 December 1942, Navy 3427439 Unregistered Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. (Board # 4) That guy was in the Navy.
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.
Charles T Payne was Obama’s grandmother’s grandfather. He was born about June 1861 in Missouri and died sometime after the 1930 census where he is enumerated with his eldest daughter Lillie in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
05/28/2008 11:49:08 AM PDT
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“Concerning the service of Mr. Charles Payne: C.T. Payne was a soldier in the 89th Infantry Division. He served in the 355th Infantry Regiment, Company K. The 355th Infantry Regiment was the unit to liberate Ohrdruf. Mr. Payne was there.”
“Aides said Tuesday that his grandmother’s brother, Charlie Payne, helped liberate a Buchenwald sub-camp in April 1945 as part of the 89th Infantry Division.”
Yes. "Obama’s maternal grandmother’s brother, Charlie Payne, served with the 89th Infantry Division that liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp." http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/27/obama-camp-admits-misspeak/
The overwhelming majority of American voters know that the Russians liberated Auschwitz. Obama is a Harvard-educated presidential candidate yet he does not appear to know even basic facts about the Holocaust. This is another nail to Obama’s coffin.
Now check out what he said in a speech in West Virginia in April:
“My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.
So, in April Obama claimed his grandfather heard stories from American soldiers who were the first to enter Auschwitz and Treblinka.
05/27/2008 11:39:36 AM PDT
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Obama says that his father was one of the “first American troops to go to Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps”. He is lying. I am pretty sure that the Soviets did not invite Obama’s grand uncle (?) to Auschwitz and in any case the Soviets liberated the camp.
If Obama doesn’t know that Auschwitz is in Poland and American soldiers did not liberate it he is unqualified to be the President. If McCain had made a gaffe of this magnitude the MSM would be all over the story.