page_title: Charles T. Payne
hierarchical_section_title: Charles T. Payne
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles Payne greets Michelle Obama (off frame) and Barack Obama in Colleville-sur-Mer, France on the 65th anniversary of D-Day. (Payne's wife, Melanie, shown in uncropped original)
context_page_description: Charles Thomas Payne was an American military personal. He served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army's 89th Infantry Division. Payne was in the infantry that freed many Holocaust survivors from Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Payne was the great-uncle of President Barack Obama.
  Payne died in Chicago, Illinois, aged 89.
context_section_description: Charles Thomas Payne (February 20, 1925 – August 1, 2014) was an American military personal. He served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army's 89th Infantry Division. Payne was in the infantry that freed many Holocaust survivors from Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Payne was the great-uncle of President Barack Obama.
  Payne died in Chicago, Illinois, aged 89.
caption: Charles Payne greets his great-niece by marriage Michelle Obama (off frame) and his great nephew Barack Obama in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. (Payne's wife, Melanie Payne, is also off-frame.)
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