U.S. Army Air Forces · United States 
First Lieutenant Charles Bartlett Birdsey served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Charles served in World War II. Charles was the parent of one child. Charles was 23 years old.
1st Lt Charles B. Birdsey joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in Boston, Massachusetts on 6 May 1942. He graduated from Searles High School and Cambridge School of Art. He was a commercial artist before he joined the army. | | The airplane was attacked by fighters and broke in half prior to the crash. The entire crew of 10 was killed. | | Eight of them were recovered and buried at the Jewish cemetery of Hoya on 10 May 1944. Only the remains of James V. Ball, then listed as unknown, was buried at the Russian POW Cemetery of Vechta on 11 May 1944. Eight days after the crash, a Luftwaffe guard detail discovered the totally burned remains of the last two crewmembers in the wrackage (Edward J. Bondy and Charles B. Birdsey). Their are no records what happened with these bodies.
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