There are very few photographs of US Army Staff Sergeant Charles “Chuckie” Melvin Wilson, 36th Bomb Squad, 801st Bomb Group. He was killed in action on 28 April 1944 along with four other American aviators when his B-24 ‘Liberator’ Bomber crashed in the French village of Saint-Cyr-de-Valorges on a secret mission to supply the French resistance in advance of D-Day. Just ten days before he was killed, his brother and sister-in-law had a baby girl, his first niece, and the mother of Unforgotten Glory’s author. She recently passed away; found among her possessions were these new, previously unseen photos of Chuckle.

May these images evoke a small comfort to know that once we are gone, we will not be erased from the memories of others.