Sydney Mortenson, U.S. Army Air Force: Stalag Luft III, Germany, World War II

Authors

T. Sydney Mortenson

Interviewers

Elmer Lian

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

7-9-1996

Abstract

Oral history interview with Sydney Mortenson of the U.S. Army Air Force during the Second World War. Mortenson was shot down over Germany and was imprisoned at Stalag Luft 3. He was liberated by General George Patton's Third Army in April 1945.

T. Sydney Mortenson was born in Hampden, North Dakota, on 31 March 1917 and died on 19 December 2011 in Denver, Colorado.

Recommended Citation

T. Sydney Mortenson. "Sydney Mortenson, U.S. Army Air Force: Stalag Luft III, Germany, World War II" (1996). Kriegieland: Conversations with Ex-POWs. 19.
https://commons.und.edu/kriegieland-conversations/19

File Type

.mp4

Recording Length

1 hour, 32 minutes