Charles G. Reynolds will be buried in his Ohio hometown later this month — 80 years after he went missing.
. In late 1943, he was a pilot assigned to the 498th Bombardment Squadron in the Pacific Theater. On Nov. 27, 1943, the plane that he was a crewmember of did not return from a bombing mission near Wewak, New Guinea, the agency said, because the aircraft had taken heavy damage and was forced to make an emergency landing in a lagoon. Efforts to recover Reynolds's remains failed, and the crew was labeled missing in action at the time.
The remains were interred at Fort McKinley Cemetery in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, after being declared unidentifiable. It wasn't until 2019, when a recovery team working in the same area found"possible material evidence," that some of those remains were exhumed and sent to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Laboratory where tests could be run.
His remains will be buried in Bridgeport, Ohio. An obituary states that a ceremony honoring his life will be held on Sept. 23, 2023. According to the obituary, Reynolds's parents and siblings died before he was identified, as did some of his nieces and nephews. However, he is survived by three nieces and nephews and"many" great and great-great nieces and nephews, the obituary said. He will be buried with his parents.
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