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Pvt Charles O. Snyder attended high school for two years and was employed at the Comgoleum- Nairn Inc. He also was affiliated with the Newark branch of the Salvation Army.

He enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 19 April 1943. He trained at Camp Stewart, Georgia, El Paso, Texas and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He was sent overseas in December 1944.

Pvt Charles C. Snyder was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action in Luxembourg on 27 January 1945. The citation reads in part: "On 27 January 1945, during the attack on Hosingen, Luxembourg, Pvt Snyder, acting as communication sergeant of the assaulting rifle company, carried a heavy radio through waist deep snow drifts and over rough terrain in order to maintain communication with the battalion. After a mortar concentration fell nearby, Pvt Snyder's radio would not work. With utter disregard for his own personal safety, he crossed exposed terrain to borrow another radio. Advancing through heavy small arms fire with the leading elements of the company, Pvt Snyder was mortally wounded."

He died of multiple artillery shell fragment wounds at the head.