Sorrell Charles G.

Name:

Charles G. Sorrell

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-660412

Unit:

330th Bomber Squadron, 93rd Bomber Group

Date of Death:

1942-10-29

State:

Maryland

Cemetery:

Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Plot:

C

Row:

6

Grave:

4

Decoration:

Comments:

Charles G. Sorrell was born in 1917 in Maryland. He resided in Baltimore, Maryland prior to the war. He enlisted in the Maryland National Guard on December 12, 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was noted as being employed as a laboratory technician and assistant and also as Single, without dependents.

Charles served in the 330th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bomber Group, as a Second Lieutenant and Bombardier of the B-24D Liberator #41-23712 in World War II. Their airplane took off at 7:20 AM on Oct 29, 1942, with a crew of 12 on an operational U-boat patrol mission over the Bay of Biscay. They turned around at 11:30, but three hours later, due to heavy rain and poor visibility, their plane clipped Bossington Hill and crashed in the marsh at Porlock, England, killing 11 of the crew. SSgt Thorpe was the sole survivor.

2Lt Sorrell is now buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov