Samuel Richmond Dorrance

Military
media-54869.jpeg UPL 54869 1LT Samuel Richmond Dorrance
Pilot
340th BG - 486th BS - 9th AF

Object Number - UPL 54869 - 1LT Samuel Richmond Dorrance Pilot 340th BG - 486th BS - 9th AF

Practiced law after the war.

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Units served with

A B-25 Mitchell (7C) of the 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force takes off.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Ninth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Sfax-Thyna Airport
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Stamford, Connecticut 3 September 1918
Brooklyn, New York 16 October 1940 Student at Princeton University in New Jersey

Other

Shot Down/Captured

near Sulayman, Tunisia 26 April 1943

Died

Stamford, CT 22 June 1997

Buried

Darien, CT 25 June 1997 Spring Grove Cemetery Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

Other

POW

Zagan, Poland Stalag Luft III (dates are approximate)

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