Samuel Richmond Dorrance
Military
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UPL 54869
1LT Samuel Richmond Dorrance
Pilot
340th BG - 486th BS - 9th AF
Pilot
340th BG - 486th BS - 9th AF
Practiced law after the war.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Kabrit
- 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) |