Charles Bartling served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy in World War II. A pilot, he was commissioned Ensign on February 19, 1943 and was on duty along the Atlantic coast until June 1943, when he was assigned to convoy duty on a converted carrier. He was killed in action (lost at sea) flying a carrier based fighter plane while protecting a convoy in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of North Africa on June 22, 1943. Lieutenant Bartling is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York.
