Charles Andrew McWilliams was born May 13, 1922 to Verne R. and Velma M. Shields McWilliams. He died June 6, 1944 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France and has a cenotaph in Bloomfield IOOF Cemetery, Bloomfield, IA.
Sgt. McWilliams served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 838th Bomber Squadron, 487th Bomber Group, Heavy and was MIA/KIA off the northern coast, Cherbourg Peninsula on D-Day. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Air Medal.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
