Durward Lewis Sorensen
Military
Old News
Object Number - UPL 39519 - Capt Durward L. Sorensen
Assigned to 731st BS, 452BG, 8AF USAAF. 9 x combat missions. Continuous attacks by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8-Mar-44, forced B-17G 42-31354 to make a forced landing SE of Magdeburg. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 3191
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12131940 / O-749663
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-745060
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11064201 / O-691993
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36373094
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19070231
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lounge Lizard, Dixie Jane
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
Missions
![A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group return to base after a mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31761) nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge". Image stamped on reverse: 'Sunday Pictorial for Censor.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '310673.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'BACK FROM BERLIN. Scenes this week at a Bomber station of the U.S. Air Force , somewhere in England. The crew of the Flying Fortress "Rotherhithe's Revenge", a British subscribed ship](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-380068.jpg.webp?itok=3h76SN3N)
- Date: 8 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Detroit, MI | 6 November 1917 | Son of Carl H and Grace Metha Sorensen. |
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Enlisted |
Detroit, MI | 28 March 1941 | Detroit, Michigan |
| Wayne County, MI | 16 October 1942 | Draft registration NoK Mother Grace. Employed Great Lakes Steel Corp Wayne County, MI | |
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Other Baled out POW |
SE Magdeburg, Germany | 8 March 1944 | Continuous attacks by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8-Mar-44, forced B-17G 42-31354 to make a forced landing SE of Magdeburg. POW MACR 3191 |
|
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 8 March 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
|
Died |
Oklahoma City, OK | 22 September 1999 | |
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Based Prisoner of War (POW) |
Deopham Green | 8 March 1944 | Assigned to 731st BS, 452BG, 8AF USAAF. |
| Dearborn, MI |
Revisions
https://www.fold3.com/image/661505854
https://www.fold3.com/image/141127725?rec=141127843
https://www.fold3.com/image/37108837?terms=42-31354
https://www.fold3.com/record/43441863-durward-l-sorensen
https://www.fold3.com/record/89461585-durward-l-sorensen
https://www.fold3.com/record/529035665-durward-sorensen-1917
http://www.merkki.com/PageS.htm
MACR 3191 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
