This is a photograph of Staff Sgt. Charles Lopez who entered the Army Air Corps in October, 1943. He served as a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber based in England. Lopez was killed in action over Germany on October 18, 1944. Lopez graduated from Capitol Catholic High School and was employed in the Kaiser shipyards in Oakland, California before entering the Air Force. He was married to Theresa Segova and they had a daughter Augustina Theresa. While Lopez served in the Army Air Corps, Theresa and Augustina Theresa lived with his father Pedro Lopez.
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