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Charles T. Payne
American World War II soldier (1925–2014)
See also: Family of Barack Obama
Charles Thomas Payne (February 16, 1925 – August 1, 2014) was an American librarian and soldier.
A member of the Obama family, he was the brother of Madelyn Payne Dunham and granduncle of former U.S. president Barack Obama.
During World War II, Payne served as a member of the U.S. Army's 89th Infantry Division[1][2] that liberated Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.[3][4][5]
His military service was often mentioned in Obama's speeches, including the one given in 2009 commemorating the anniversary of D-Day.[6][7] During the 2008 presidential election, there was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp he helped liberate as Auschwitz instead of Ohrdruf.[8] In 2009, Payne spoke about this experience:
Ohrdruf was in that string of towns going across, south of G