Charles Pritchard Lesesne was born March 4, 1911 at Orangeburg to Claude P. and Elizabeth Daniel Lesesne of Sumter, South Carolina. He attended the public schools in Columbia, the Citadel and the University of South Carolina. Charles was a member of the editorial staff of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer for five years and left that newspaper before the United States entered the war to join the R.C.A.F. He was aviation editor of the Observer.

Charles learned to fly and received his pilot’s license while a member of the Observer staff. He was an instructor in Canada for several years before going overseas. Charles served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Pilot of an aircraft during World War II. He was killed in a mission over Germany and is now buried in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Ohlsdorf, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany. Flight Officer Lesesne was one of the many brave Americans with the Royal Canadian Air Force and lost their lives in aerial operations against the German forces.

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