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T/5 Charles E. Hall attended college for one year and was employed at the Ingersoll Rand Painted Post, New York before he enlisted in Rochester, New York on 26 January 1943.

Renee Herzog:
I was told by a gentleman in my hometown of Hornell who said that he was with my uncle when he was killed. My uncle was known to be a jokester. He was always trying to make people laugh. The day he was killed, he had made a racoon hat which he was wearing. He was dancing around with it trying to make his fellow soldiers laugh when he was shot in the head by a sniper. That was the story that was told to me. I know from my dad that is was his nature to clown around as it was also my dad's and grandfather's. There was a newspaper article in the Hornell Tribune about my uncle when he was in high school swallowing gold fish to make other students laugh. My uncle was very patriotic. I have an essay he wrote in which he won a DAR award. It was his intent to become a writer.