> Since his mother was an only child, hence no possible uncle on that side of the family, his only other uncles would have been Kenyan. How many Kenyans were in Patton’s army?
None — but fair enough he is now saying Grandmother’s-brother so Great Uncle Charles Payne...
Two mistakes, but maybe no lie. So let’s see the service records of Payne Charles of 89 Infantry.
(crickets...)
Was it one of these four WWII Kansas-natives named Charles Payne...??? Can some FreeperSleuths investigate better than I???
World War II Kansas Veterans Index
Surname: Payne
Given Name(s): Charles
Branch: Army
Your search returned 4 results.
Results 1 through 4
Name Service Service # Registration Place Comments
Payne, Charles A. Inducted 11 April 1942, Army 37255144 Registered, order # 2043 Lyons, Rice Co. (Board # 1)
Payne, Charles E. Inducted 9 June 1943, Army 37531353 Registered, order # V11125 Augusta, Butler Co. (Board # 2)
Payne, Charles J. Inducted 12 September 1942, Army 37223827 Registered, order # 11191 Wichita, Sedgwick Co. (Board # 3)
Payne, Charles L. Enlisted 1 October 1942, Army 0498672 Registered, order # U-894 Fort Scott, Bourbon Co. (Board # 1)
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Source: Adjutant General Armed Forces Personnel Who Served between September 16, 1940, and June 30, 1946.
Came across this Charles Payne... http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.20370/
and this obit for a Charles Payne, but Obama is not listed as one of the surviving relatives...
http://www.thetelegraph.com/common/printer/view.php?db=alton&id=12047
and this one...
http://ussslcca25.com/payne.htm, a Charles T Payne, but the bio says he participated from aboard the USS SLC CA25 in action in the Pacific
Also found a Charles Payne who is a professor, and has written books, as well as another who is an actor, and another who is a financial advisor. In my hasty search, I didn’t see anything about liberating prison camps.
Any truth to this? (from Dan Riehl’s site Riehl World View)
Okay, so we have supposedly learned that it was Obama’s Great Uncle that liberated a sub-section of Buchenwald, not an uncle at Auschwitz. But if sources are correct and unless there’s some arcane military history in his favor, Obama still has a problem.
His only Great Uncle is Charles W. Payne. It at least appears that no one by that name from Kansas served in the Army during WWII.
Charles W. Payne of Kansas, with a similar birth era, served in the Navy during WWII.
Just sayin’
Not a peep about him here: http://www.89infdivww2.org/home/jan2005.htm
Not a peep about liberating a camp here:
http://www.history.army.mil/lineage/cc/089id.htm
lists the company’s nickname as “Rolling W” and slogan as “Get it done”
This one has the bit about liberating the camp:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006140 and includes: “Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops in Germany. “ Also includes video: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006140&MediaId=3722
That’s all I can find for now. Off to work!