Charles R. McCArthy was born in 1915 in New Jersey. He resided in Hudson County, New Jersey prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on October 24, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Manager and also as Married. Charles served as a Staff Sergeant on B29-5-BW Superfortress "Defiant L-assie" #42-6280, 678th Bomber Squadron, 444th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

Charles was "Killed In Action" when his B-29, while on a bombing mission over Northern China, struck a mountainside near Fuling, China during the war. He was originally interred overseas and was later repatriated in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA in a common grave with his crew on November 2, 1949. Charles He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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