RADIO OPERATOR / GUNNER
Sgt. Howard A. Sorensen

Sorensen was born April 2, 1921.  A Mormon, he joined the US Army Air Corp during October 1939.

Twenty years old on the February 23, 1942 mission. Afterwards, he spent two weeks in the hospital recovering.

Afterwards, he flew a total of 33 combat missions. One of his other combat highlights was being radio operator during MacArthur's first flight in New Guinea.  The general was seated next to him in a pullman chair mounted in the radio room. 

After his tour he went to flight school in 1943 but was not granted wings due to an eye injury, but enlisted for a second tour with the 20th Air Force in China-Burma-India (CBI), after the war he retired from the military in 1945.

He retired to Fullerton, California and passed away on February 17, 2004.

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